NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 563
SENATE BILL 547

AN ACT TO GIVE GRANDPARENTS CUSTODY AND VISITATION RIGHTS IN CERTAIN CASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  A new subsection is added to G.S. 50-13.5 to read:
"(j)	Custody and visitation rights of grandparents. — In any action in which the custody of a minor child has been awarded to a parent and subsequently that parent dies, the grandparents of the child on the side of the deceased parent may intervene in the action and shall be entitled to such custody or visitation rights as the court, in its discretion, deems appropriate."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of May, 1979.