Kirk R. Jocham v. Melba Sutliff

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• concluding that a biological grandparent had no standing to seek visitation with the adopted child
• holding that \[p]revious court precedent has defined the '[v]isitation rights' referenced in section 31-17-5-9 as visitation rights already exercised or established by court order ... prior to the adoption\
• finding grandparent lacked standing to seek visitation under the GVA where she had failed to even pursue such rights before the time of the adoption decree
• “Following the adoption, Sutliff remained K.J.’s grandmother biologically, emotionally, and morally, but at the time she filed her petition for grandparent visitation, she was no longer legally his grandparent.”
• “Because Sutliff had not sought visitation rights pursuant to section 31-17- 5-1 prior to the adoption, no right to visitation had already been given by a court, and she had no visitation rights for section 31-17-5-9 to protect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).