Divided Wisconsin High Court Finds Grandparent Visitation Statute Constitutional

Mealey's (May 29, 2019, 10:11 AM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — A 7-2 Wisconsin Supreme Court on May 24 found that the state’s grandparent visitation statute is factually constitutional but fully agreed that a trial court judge unconstitutionally applied the statute when granting a grandmother’s request for visitation of her granddaughter, holding that she did not present clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption that the decision of the girl’s parents to cut back on her visitation of the child was in the child’s best interest (Cacie M. Michaels v. Keaton L. Lyons, et al., No. 2017AP1142, Wis. Sup., 2019 Wisc. LEXIS 256)....