Ralph R. Grant and Mary Grant, Respondents Below, Appellants v. Mindy Grant and Raymond Grant, Petitioners Below…

Summary

The Supreme Court of Delaware reversed an order granting grandparents supervised, therapeutic visitation because the grandparents failed to prove that the parents’ objections were unreasonable by clear and convincing evidence and failed to prove that visitation would not substantially interfere with the parent-child relationship. The court held that supervised visitation could not serve as an evidentiary substitute for satisfying the statutory requirements, particularly where the record supported the parents’ concerns and contained no evidence of supervision’s mitigating effects. The court declined to remand and denied the grandparents’ petition.