CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Dispositional Hearing
.........Reunification & Visitation
............Grandparent Visitation
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Visitation by grandparent: Court to consider whether family ties and best interest of minor will be served.

Visitation by grandparent: Court to consider whether family ties and best interest of minor will be served.

Family members' visitation with minor where one parent deceased.

Grandparents, who were also de facto parents, had no substantive due process right to visit grandchildren when they were dependents of court, and CPS and children's mother agreed visitation should cease.

To overcome presumption that a fit parent will act in C's best interest, GP has BOP to show, by clear and convincing evidence, that denial of GP visitation is not in C's best interest, i.e., denial of visitation would be detrimental to C.

Decision to terminate visitation b/t Cs and maternal grandparents/de facto parents where Cs placed with paternal grandparents, exceeded the bounds of reason and was abuse of discretion.

As reasonable and practical construction can be given to 'stalking' as used in W&IC 213.5 (a), derived from statutes and common usage, it is not unconstitutionally vague and restraining order against grandparent supported by substantial evidence.