WILSON v. WALLACE

No. 81-60.

622 S.W.2d 164 (1981)

Bonnie Wallace WILSON and Clyde WILSON Appellants, v. D. L. WALLACE and Dorothy Wallace, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eaton & Benton by Charles S. Embry, Jr., Pine Bluff, for appellants.

Gill & Johnson by Marion S. Gill, Dumas, for appellees.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The question is this: When the widowed mother of an infant child remarries and later joins her second husband in obtaining a probate court decree by which he adopts the child, are the paternal grandparents of the child still entitled to obtain visitation privileges by a chancery court proceeding? The chancellor, recognizing the binding effect of the Court of Appeals decision in Hensley v. Wist, 270 Ark. 1004, 607...

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