Decision ends grandparent visitation law

Friday, April 19, 2002

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Grandparents and the government cannot interfere with a parent's decisions about raising children except under extraordinary circumstances, the Illinois Supreme Court said Thursday in a ruling that strikes down the state's "grandparent visitation" law.

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