93-16-5 - Parties to proceeding; discretion of court in granting, enforcing, modifying or terminating rights.
§ 93-16-5. Parties to proceeding; discretion of court in granting, enforcing, modifying or terminating rights.
All persons required to be made parties in child custody proceedings or proceedings for the termination of parental rights shall be made parties to any proceeding in which a grandparent of a minor child or children seeks to obtain visitation rights with such minor child or children; and the court may, in its discretion, if it finds that such visitation rights would be in the best interest of the child, grant to a grandparent reasonable visitation rights with the child. Whenever visitation rights are granted to a grandparent, the court may issue such orders as shall be necessary to enforce such rights and may modify or terminate such visitation rights for cause at any time.
Sources: Laws, 1983, ch. 497, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1983.