Court Rules Against Grandparents’ Rights
From Times Wire Reports
The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously struck down a law that gave grandparents the right to spend time with their grandchildren, ruling it interfered with parental rights.
The court said the law substituted “sentimentality for constitutionality.”
Short of a decision that parents were unfit and incapable of deciding who should visit their child, neither courts nor the Legislature can interfere, the court said.
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