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Grandparent Visitation

By Barry Abbott and Alton L. Abramowitz

A client comes to your office and explains that her husband died recently and that she is the mother of school-age children. After expressing your condolences, you learn that your client's mother-in-law has demanded a regular schedule of visitation, but the client does not trust her. She believes, from past experience, that the grandmother is intrusive and will be more intrusive now that her son has died, and she is most concerned that her mother-in-law will undermine her role with her children. During the interview you learn that the mother-in-law has had a divisive influence on members of her own family.'

The client, although sad and understandably upset, is educated, intelligent, and clearly a caring, fit parent (the latter term having significant implications in the analysis to follow). She begins to cry, reaches for her bag and removes some papers that she spreads out on your desk ' a family court visitation summons and petition that she was recently served. She is due in court in a week.

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