FAIRBANKS v. McCARTER

No. 125, September Term, 1992.

330 Md. 39 (1993)

622 A.2d 121

RICHARD M. FAIRBANKS ET UX. v. JAMES F. McCARTER, JR.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 31, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett W. Wilson, (Wilson & Collison, P.A., both on brief) both of Cambridge, for appellant.

George J. Goldsborough, Jr. (Goldsborough & Tolley, both on brief) both of Easton, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case focuses upon Maryland's grandparents' visitation statute, ch. 296 of the Acts of 1981, now codified as Maryland Code (1984, 1991 Repl.Vol.) § 9-102 of the Family Law Article. It provides:

"At any time after the termination of a marriage by divorce, annulment, or death, an equity court may: (1) consider a petition for reasonable visitation by a grandparent of a natural or adopted child of the parties whose marriage...

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