Grandparents Rights Bill Tied to Markel Murder
February 8th, 2022 by Mike Vasilinda
Legislation allowing grandparents to visit their grandchildren when one parent is accused in the complicity of the death of the other cleared its second of three committees today. The bill is narrowly tailored and based on the murder for hire of FSU law professor Dan Markel in 2014. His parents have been forbidden from seeing his two sons. Both his wife and mother in law have been named by police in the case, but neither has been charged with a crime. Senator Keith Perry is sponsoring the bill.
“When you think about grandparents in general, and as a matter of fact we talked about broadening the scope of this bill at some point in time, When you think about grandparents who have relationships with grandkids, really close, and sometimes I think it might be in the best interest to have the grandparent have a relationship with that child. Not lose that,” says Perry.
Under the bill, if a surviving parent was convicted of a crime involving the other parents death, or found liable in a civil suit, grandparents can ask a judge to be involved in their grandchildren’s lives.
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