IN RE PATERNITY OF E.M.B.

No. 2009AP488.

805 N.W.2d 118 (2011)

2011 WI App 122

In re the PATERNITY OF E.M.B. Steve B. Wohlers, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Shari L. Broughton, Respondent, Diane White and Leo White, Third Party-Intervenors-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed August 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioner-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Donald B. Bruns of Bruns Law Office, Madison.

On behalf of the third party-intervenors-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of Carol M. Gapen of The Law Center for Children & Families, Madison.

Before LUNDSTEN, P.J., VERGERONT and HIGGINBOTHAM, JJ.


HIGGINBOTHAM, J.

¶ 1 This is a grandparent visitation case. Steve Wohlers, father of E.B., appeals a trial court order modifying a visitation schedule that granted more visitation to E.B.'s maternal grandparents, Leo and Diane White (the grandparents), than Wohlers had proposed. The parties raise three main issues in this appeal: (1) whether the court erred in declining to require the grandparents to prove the existence of a "significant triggering event" under...

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