MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF NEMER

No. 86-1134.

419 N.W.2d 582 (1988)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP and Conservatorship OF Nathan Paul NEMER. Boulos NEMER, Mountaha Nemer, and Michael Nemer, Appellants, v. Becky Lynn SWEENEY, Guardian and Conservator of Nathan Paul Nemer, n/k/a Nathan Paul Sweeney, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll L. Lucht and Patricia N. Fetzer, Iowa City, Crystal M. Greiman and Connie Fox-Samson, Student Legal Interns, for appellants.

David L. Wetsch, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and SCHULTZ, CARTER, LAVORATO and NEUMAN, JJ.


NEUMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from the district court's dismissal of an action brought to enforce grandparent visitation rights in a guardianship proceeding. Two narrow questions must be answered: First, are grandparent visitation rights awarded by a district court exercising its probate jurisdiction in a guardianship proceeding automatically terminated by a subsequent intrafamily adoption? Second, does the required visitation continue to be in the grandchild...

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