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AYDELOTT v. QUARTARO

No. 2011-CA-01880-COA.

124 So.3d 97 (2013)

Shassidy Gail AYDELOTT and Christopher Adam Aydelott, Appellants v. Dorothy QUARTARO and Jack Quartaro, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied October 22, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Shane McLaughlin , Nicole H. McLaughlin , Tupelo, attorneys for appellants.

William C. Stennett , attorney for appellees.

Before LEE, C.J., CARLTON and MAXWELL, JJ.

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. The right to grandparent visitation is purely statutory and may only be considered if the grandparent meets certain statutory criteria. The criteria in Mississippi's grandparent-visitation statute are important. By placing limitations on who may petition for visitation, the criteria keep a grandparent's statutory right to visitation from impermissibly encroaching on the parents' rights to rear their children as they see fit.<...

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