Smallwood v. Mann

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court erred in giving grandparents essentially the visitation of the absent noncustodial parent
• holding that the juvenile court lacked jurisdiction under a previous version of the statute
• holding that the juvenile court lacked jurisdiction under a previous version of the statute
• “Though ‘procedural’ changes in the law generally apply retrospectively to causes of action arising before such changes become law, where the pending action has gone beyond the procedural stage to which the amendment pertains, an amendment will not apply.”

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