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Grandparents also have the right to visit a minor.

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Grandparents also have the right to visit a minor 2021 YLR 1989 LHR SAROSH SIKANDER VS GUARDIAN JUDGE, LAHORE The petitioner (mother) challenged the maintainability of an application filed by the grandmother seeking interim custody and visitation rights of a minor in the Guardian Court. The court rejected the petitioner’s constitutional petition, ruling that the grandmother's application for visitation rights was maintainable. Key Legal Issues: •Whether the grandmother could apply for interim custody and visitation rights under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. •Scope of the term 'parent' within the Family Courts Act, 1964, as it pertains to visitation rights. •Maintainability of a constitutional petition against an interlocutory order of the Guardian Court. Holding: The court held that the grandmother’s application for interim custody and visitation rights of the minor was maintainable. The term 'parent' in the Family Courts Act, 1964, was interpreted broadly enou...