Ryan v. DeMello

How courts have described this case

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• holding that visitation rights may be granted to relatives other than parents only when specifically authorized by statute
• stating “the Family Court may award the custody of a child to a relative ... if there has been a judicial determination that the child is delinquent, wayward, neglected, or otherwise comes within the purview of the Family Court Act”
• stating ‘the Family Court may award the custody of a child to a relative ... if there has been a judicial determination that the child is delinquent, wayward, neglected, or otherwise comes within the purview of the Family Court Act’
• because the right of visitation is incident to parenthood status, Family Court regulates visitation rights in divorce proceeding
• since right of visitation is incident to parenthood status, Family Court regulates visitation rights in divorce proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).