Grandparents had standing to sue for grandparent visitation with child whose birth parents died, even after child was adopted by one parent’s sister and brother-in-law, despite contention that grandparental visitation statute was limited to cases involving “the absence of a nuclear family”; parents’ deaths conferred standing on grandparents to seek visitation, and nothing in statute divested grandparents of that standing when child became part of a new family unit.
http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/opinions/2015/2015035pb.pdf
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