New York Court of Appeals

The People of the State of New York Ex Rel. Agatha Sibley

November 19, 198154 N.Y.2d 320

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the lower courts' grant of visitation rights to a natural grandmother under §72 of the Domestic Relations Law, holding that adoption does not terminate a grandparent's statutory right to seek visitation and that the statute's application does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.