Grandparent visitation: termination of parent’s rights does not terminate grandparent’s court ordered visitation
Published for On the Civil Side on April 10, 2019.
The court of appeals recently reversed a trial court decision that a judgment terminating a mother’s parental rights voided a court order entered five years earlier granting her mother visitation with her grandchild. In Adams v. Langdon, (NC App March 19, 2019), the court of appeals held that the termination of the mother’s rights had no impact on the visitation rights the trial court ordered for grandmother before mother’s rights were terminated.
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