The Kansas state legislature recently repealed the Kansas statute providing for grandparent and stepparent visitation rights, KSA 23-3301, and replaced it with the Uniform Nonparent Visitation Act (UNVA). The Act expands visitation rights to grandparents, stepparents and siblings of a child. However, the requirements of the Uniform Nonparent Visitation Act may be more difficult for a nonparent to prove. The most notable difference between KSA 23-3301 and the UNVA is that the new law requires a nonparent to show that “[t]he denial of visitation would result in harm to the child.” This means there must be a “significant adverse [...]