Grandparents' Legal Rights to Visitation in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia

Catherine A. McCrimmon; Robert J. Howell

Grandparents' Legal Rights to Visitation in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia

Catherine A. McCrimmon
Catherine A. McCrimmon
Catherine A. McCrimmon is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University. Robert J. Howell is a professor of Psychology and director of the clinical training program in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University.
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and Robert J. Howell
Robert J. Howell
Catherine A. McCrimmon is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University. Robert J. Howell is a professor of Psychology and director of the clinical training program in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University.
PhD

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
December 1989,
17
(4)
355-366;

Abstract

The parameters of legal visitation rights for grandparents in both biological and adoptive parenting situations are explored. Laws in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are summarized. Suggestions for improvement in the current system are included.

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Grandparents' Legal Rights to Visitation in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia

Catherine A. McCrimmon

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and Robert J. Howell

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Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online

Dec 1989,

17

(4)

355-366;

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Grandparents' Legal Rights to Visitation in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia

Catherine A. McCrimmon

Catherine A. McCrimmon

and Robert J. Howell

Robert J. Howell

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online

Dec 1989,

17

(4)

355-366;

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