Opinion ID: 1791331
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The chancellor erred by granting the grandmother superior visitation rights to those of the father

Text: ¶ 34. Derek and Rachelle also contend that the chancellor's scheduling of visitation for West conflicted with Derek's scheduled times, and that because West was successful in getting visitation rights, such an award made Derek's visitation rights inferior to West's. Derek and Rachelle rely on Settle v. Galloway, 682 So.2d 1032 (Miss.1996), where this Court held that a grandparent does not have a right to visitation as comprehensive as that of a parent. Id. at 1035. The schedule plainly states that where it and Derek's visitation weekends conflict, the order granting West visitation rights shall prevail. The chancellor's decision to award visitation to West that conflicted with times that Derek was to have Zack resulted in West gaining visitation rights superior to that of the father, which is in direct violation of Settle. We conclude that the chancellor applied an erroneous legal standard when granting West visitation rights. Furthermore, the award of visitation rights to West improperly exceeded the visitation rights of Derek in contradiction of our established precedent.