“I’m very emotional and am just trying to keep it together here,” Scott Naso said after the judge’s ruling on Thursday, April 23
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- On Thursday, a Rhode Island judge ruled in favor of Scott Naso in a legal battle with his late wife’s parents over visitation with his 4-year-old daughter
- Scott, who had tears streaming down his face after the ruling, has spent over $500,000 in legal fees since the trial began last year
- The court upheld his parental rights, but criticized his actions and fined him for violating visitation orders
A widowed father couldn’t hold back his tears when a contentious battle with his deceased wife’s parents culminated in a legal win just one day before the two-year anniversary of his wife’s death. On Thursday, a Rhode Island Family Court judge denied their petition for visitation rights with his 4-year-old daughter.
“I’m very emotional and am just trying to keep it together here,” Scott Naso said as he hugged members of his legal team and friends who attended the hearing in the Kent County Courthouse. “He [Judge Felix Gill] respected my fundamental parental rights to protect my daughter.”
Gill’s decision came after Scott’s lawyer requested to suspend the trial on the grounds that the grandparents had not met the state statute requiring them to prove Scott’s decision to keep them from seeing Laila was unreasonable…