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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
No Longer Divorced from Grandparents

Marketing gurus covet the power of "owning" words. Coke and Pepsi are famous for their so-called "Cola Wars," fighting for the title of real cola.

On the divorce battlefields, "best interests of the minor child" is the phrase to watch out for. Brand management may be permanently ensconced in courtrooms, thanks to MCL 722.23 and deference thereto.

And now Grandma and Grandpa were welcomed back to our table last week, after an absence since mid-2003.

Among other things, this gives them "standing" under certain divorce case circumstances to exercise visitation rights with their grandchildren.

The diametric friction that's driving this formality, it seems to me, takes us back to Marketing 101: Who will own the title of "parent"?

Answer? It's no longer available, at least not by the textbook definition.

So we're left to make the best of what is after our divorces — sharing the remains.

Hope this helps.

—posted by Dell Deaton @4:08 PM EST 1/12/2005 [150]

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