Robinson v. Reif

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Visitation
Citation
Case Number: 
2014 IL App (4th) 140244
Decision Date: 
Monday, November 24, 2014
District: 
4th Dist.
Division/County: 
Macon Co.
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
STEIGMANN
Maternal grandparents filed petition for permanent and temporary grandparent visitation of their two minor grandchildren, who they had taken care of in their home for 18 months after car accident in which children's mother was killed and their father was severely injured. Children were age 3 and age 7 months at time of accident. Court's judgment, granting petition and setting visitation schedule, was not against manifest weight of the evidence. Plaintiffs presented expert testimony that young children develop attachments to primary caregivers, and opined that children formed attachment to Plaintiffs during this critical development stage and that children would be damaged emotionally if deprived of all visitation with Plaintiffs. (APPLETON and TURNER, concurring.)