AZ SB1434

Amends Arizona law to expand visitation rights for blood relatives of a legal parent by allowing them to petition for visitation if the parents' marriage has been dissolved for at least three months or a biological parent is deceased and the blood relative has acted in loco parentis or developed a close relationship with the child.

Applies the new blood relative visitation provision regardless of how many legal parents the child has at the time the petition is filed.

Maintains existing requirements that third parties seeking legal decision-making or visitation must establish they stand in loco parentis, that placement with a legal parent would be significantly detrimental to the child, and that no recent court order exists concerning the child.

Preserves the rebuttable presumption that awarding legal decision-making to a legal parent serves the child's best interests and requires clear and convincing evidence to rebut it.

Requires petitioners to provide verified pleadings with detailed facts and serve notice to legal parents, guardians, and other parties with custody or decision-making authority.