L.F.M. v. Department of Social Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that grandparents had no right to visit children over objection of confidential prospective adoptive parents
• holding that grandparents had no right to visit children over objection of confidential prospective adoptive parents
• “There must be a point, however, where adoptive parents are presumed, like natural parents, to be acting in their children’s best interests without having to prove it in a court of law.”
• “We do not question the sincerity or the depth of the affection that appellants feel for their grandchildren. That affection, however, simply does not translate into a constitutionally protected liberty interest.”
• collecting decisions of the United States Supreme Court
• collecting decisions of the United States Supreme Court

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