IN RE MARRIAGE OF HOWARD

No. 02-0211.

661 N.W.2d 183 (2003)

In re the MARRIAGE OF Charitie S. HOWARD and Dennis M. Howard, Jr. Upon the Petition of Charitie S. Howard, Appellant, and Concerning Dennis M. Howard, Jr., Respondent, Dennis Howard, Sr., and Connie Howard, Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anjela A. Shutts of Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Eric R. Eshelman, Des Moines, for appellees.


CADY, Justice.

In Santi v. Santi, 633 N.W.2d 312 (Iowa 2001), we determined that at least one subsection of the Iowa grandparent visitation statute was unconstitutional on its face. In this appeal, we revisit the question of the statute's constitutionality to determine whether the section of the statute permitting a petition for grandparent visitation when the parents of a child are divorced is also unconstitutional. We conclude...

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