Grandparents’ visitation rights are an important part of family law, with laws passed in every state since 1990. This work is a second edition of M. Kristine Taylor Warren’s Grandparent Visitation Rights: A Legal Research Guide (2001), which provided a useful summary of the statutory law, case law, and secondary sources available at that time. Over the past twenty years, grandparents’ visitation rights have grown dramatically with revisions of the law, many more cases at all levels of the federal, state, and local courts, and in secondary sources. This new edition incorporates Warren’s information with the new law and sources.

Dr. Joel Fishman possesses a B.A. from Hunter College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a M.L.S. degree from Queens College (CUNY). He has been a law librarian for forty-five years, serving for 22 years as the law librarian at the Allegheny County Law Library, and then Assistant/Associate Director for Lawyer Services at the Duquesne University Center for Legal Information/ Allegheny County Law Library (1999-June 2016). Dr. Fishman has also served on various committees in local, regional, and national law library organizations. Since 1980, he has taught legal research courses to law students, undergraduate students, and paralegal students at Duquesne University, University of Pittsburgh, Robert Morris University, and other local colleges.

Dr. Fishman is a prolific author with more than 300 publications including books, articles in law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers, chapters in books, and book reviews. He is an expert in Pennsylvania legal history and bibliography, and also Co-Director of the Pennsylvania Constitution Website at Duquesne University School of Law, and of an Online Biographical Directory of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This title is Dr. Fishman’s third volume in Hein’s Legal Research Guide series. He has also written on Judicial Ethics and Discipline (2020) and Grand Juries (2020).