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IN RE MARRIAGE OF MEHRING

No. 5-00-0057.

755 N.E.2d 109 (2001)

324 Ill. App.3d 262

258 Ill.Dec. 28

In re MARRIAGE OF Michael MEHRING, Petitioner, and Julie Mehring, Respondent-Appellant (Ella Mehring, Intervenor-Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied September 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lance B. Freezeland, Effingham, for Appellant.

Margaret J. Walsh, Strellis, Faulbaum, Walsh & Field, Belleville, for Appellee.

Presiding Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case began with the basic question of whether a nine-year-old girl should be allowed to visit her paternal grandmother. The broader question presented is whether the grandparental-visitation statute (750 ILCS 5/607(b)(1) (West 2000)) is unconstitutional as violative of a parent's liberty rights guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution and article I, section 2, of the...

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