A recent revision of Georgia’s visiting statute for grandparents clarifies the wording used by the state Supreme Court in Patten v. Ardis, 304 Ga. 140 (2018). Previously, the law allowed Georgia courts to grant visiting rights to grandparents if they could show that visits were in the child’s “best interest.”
In the Patten case, the court found the wording to be an unconstitutional violation of parents’ rights. The new wording, passed by the state legislature earlier this year in Senate Law 576 and taking effect July 1, allows courts to allow grandparents a visit only if they can show that the child will be “harmed” if the visit is not granted.
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