Research Guides

Pathfinders prepared by the Connecticut Judicial Branch law librarians:

• Grandparent Visitation and Custody in Connecticut

• Child Custody Actions in Connecticut

• Child Visitation Actions in Connecticut

OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research:

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - 2012-R-0391
  You asked for information on state financial assistance programs for grandparents raising grandchildren.
• Caselaw on Grandparents’ Visitation Rights in Connecticut - 2011-R-0333
  You asked us to summarize five Supreme Court cases (four from Connecticut's court and one from the U.S. Supreme Court) involving child visitation and custody disputes between fit parents and third parties, including grandparents (Castagno v. Whoelean, Troxel v. Granville, Roth v. Weston, Fish v. Fish, and DiGiovanni v. St. George).
• Grandparent Visitation Over a Parents' Objection - 2011-R-0022
  You asked what legislation could be enacted to strengthen a grandparent's right to visit his or her grandchild over a parent's objection.
• Grandparents' Visitation Rights - 2011-R-0079
  You asked for a comparison of Connecticut's law on grandparents' right to visit their grandchildren with the laws on that subject in other states.
• Grandparents Rights - 2009-R-0439
  You asked several questions regarding grandparents' rights to petition the court for visitation with their grandchildren.
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - 2008-R-0048
  You asked us to give an overview of the financial assistance programs the state provides to grandparents raising their grandchildren.
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - 2007-R-0056
  You asked us to highlight differences when grandparents raise their grandchildren as (1) Department of Children and Families (DCF)-subsidized guardians or (2) probate court-appointed guardians.
• Grandparents’ Rights - 2005-R-0832
  You asked for an explanation of Connecticut law on grandparents’ custody of, and visitation with, their grandchildren.
• Grandparents’ Custody of Grandchildren
  - 2003-R-0596
  You asked for an explanation of (1) Connecticut law on grandparents’ custody of, and visitation with, their grandchildren and (2) “de facto” custody laws in other states.

• Sec.17a-98a. Kinship Navigator program
• Sec. 17a-10b. Commissioner to use best efforts to notify grandparent when child removed from custody of parent.
• Sec. 46b-56. (Formerly Sec. 46-42). Superior Court orders re custody, care, therapy, counseling and drug and alcohol screening of minor children or parents in actions for dissolution of marriage, legal separation and annulment. Access to records of minor children by noncustodial parent. Parenting education program.
• Sec. 46b-56b. Presumption re best interest of child to be in custody of parent.
• Sec. 46b-57. (Formerly Sec. 46-47). Third party intervention re custody of minor children. Preference of child.
• Sec. 46b-59. Court may grant right of visitation to any person.

• Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000).
• Roth v. Weston, 259 Conn. 202 (2002).
• Clements v. Jones, 71 Conn. App. 688 (2002).
• Denardo v. Bergamo, 272 Conn. 500 (2005).

• Sec. 25-3. Action for Custody for Minor Child
• Sec. 25-4. Action for Visitation of Minor Child

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