Title: Roberts v. Roberts
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 389, 2018
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: May 21, 2019

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
LARRY ROBERTS,1 
 
 
Petitioner Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
KASSIE ROBERTS, 
 
Respondent Below, Appellee. 
 
 
 
§  No. 389, 2018 
§  
§ Court Below—Family Court 
§ of the State of Delaware 
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§ File No. CN07-02922   
§ Petition Nos. 17-35828 
§                       17-35905 
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  Submitted:  April 12, 2019 
 
 
 
 
 
  Decided:  May 21, 2019 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; SEITZ and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
Upon consideration of the parties’ briefs and the record on appeal, the Court 
has concluded that the judgment of the Family Court should be affirmed for the 
reasons stated in its June 27, 2018 decision denying the appellant’s motion to modify 
visitation with his child (born January 11, 2002).  A parent’s right to visitation is “an 
important, natural and legal right; however, it is not an absolute right but one which 
must yield to the good of the child.”2  The Family Court did not abuse its discretion 
by concluding that the best interest factors set forth in 13 Del. C. § 722(a) weighed 
                                                 
1 The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d). 
2 Winter v. Charles, 1992 WL 53404 (Del. Feb. 3, 1992) (internal quotations omitted). 
2 
 
in favor of maintaining the visitation arrangement set forth in the court’s August 1, 
2016 order, nor by giving great weight to the wishes of the sixteen-year-old child 
concerning visitation with her father.   
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Family 
Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Gary F. Traynor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice