Lihs Ex Rel. Lihs v. Lihs

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• minor children of deceased’s second marriage have no common law or statutory right to visitation with minor children of deceased’s first marriage
• government is ill-equipped to dictate details of interaction among family members, and ordering visitation coerces what should remain a moral obligation rather than a legal obligation
• government is ill-equipped to dictate details of interaction among family members, and ordering visitation coerces what should remain a moral obligation rather than a legal obligation
• court ruled that, despite the fact that it was in child’s best interest, court had no common-law or statutory authority to mandate visitation with third par ties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).