PETITION OF SANTORO

No. C7-97-1526.

578 N.W.2d 369 (1998)

In Re Petition of Louis SANTORO and Carole Santoro for Visitation, Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 257.022.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Granted July 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Norberg, Saint Paul, for respondents Louis and Carole Santoro.

Carl A. Blondin, Oakdale, for appellants Kenneth and Stella Borgstrom.

Timothy T. Ryan, Ryan Law Firm, Chisago City, for children.

Robert G. Rancourt, Rancourt Law Offices, Lindstrom, guardian ad litem.

Considered and decided by KLAPHAKE, P.J., and RANDALL and WILLIS, JJ.


OPINION

WILLIS, Judge.

Appellants Kenneth and Stella Borgstrom, the adoptive parents of their grandchildren, challenge the district court's grant of visitation to the children's other grandparents and assert that the grandparent visitation statute, Minn.Stat. § 257.022, subds. 1 and 3 (1996), is unconstitutional. We affirm.

FACTS

Michael Borgstrom and Lisa Santoro Borgstrom died in a 1987 automobile accident, leaving two children,...

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