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· 6/3/2009

Barrett v. Ayres

Citations

  • 972 A.2d 905
  • 186 Md. App. 1
  • 2009 Md. App. LEXIS 68

How courts have described this case

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  • holding, in the context of a motion to modify visitation between a child and their grandparents filed by the child’s mother, that “the desire of a fit parent to modify visitation with a third party, [absent] exceptional circumstances, presents a material change in circumstances”
  • The court generally presumes that a parent’s decision regarding visitation and custody by a third party is in the child’s best interest.

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Judges: Eyler, Woodward, Kenney

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