No. HB 861
Grandparent Visitation Rights; Authorizes grandparent of minor child to petition court for court-ordered visitation with child in certain circumstances; making technical changes.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDHouse Bill 861 adds a new way for a grandparent to ask a court for visitation. It applies when one parent has died, disappeared, or is in a persistent vegetative state and the child lived mainly with the grandparent.
To qualify, the child must not have lived with the surviving parent for at least six months, and cutting off the grandparent would have to threaten the child's well-being.
Unlike an existing ground for visitation, this new path does not require the surviving parent to have committed a crime. Most of the rest of the bill only renumbers existing subsections.
AIA grandparent may now petition for visitation if the child lived with the grandparent for at least six months before a parent died, disappeared, or became incapacitated, and the child did not live with the surviving parent during that same period.
AIThis new ground only applies if eliminating the child's contact with the grandparent would pose a substantial threat of harm to the child's physical, mental, or emotional well-being, a separate showing from the residency requirement.