A grandmother raising her two grandchildren says their mother banged on her door and threatened to kill her, but a judge ruled she was not ‘family’ and could not seek a protection order; an October 19 appeals court ruling in Washington DC, said she can
A grandmother raising her two grandchildren can seek a civil protection order against their biological mother after a Washington, DC, appeals court ruled that their relationship qualifies as familial under local law. In ‘Allen v. Whitehead’, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s dismissal of Fonda Allen’s petition, holding that her…
