Articles on Grandparents Rights
What are our Visitation Rights as Grandparents?
My stepson had a child by his girlfriend at the time but was never told it was his child until 5 years later. During that time she got married and her husband at the time was the named father on the birth certificate. When they separated a DNA test was done and proven my stepson was the father and his name was added to the birth certificate. Her father does not like my stepson so he kept calling child services until they took the child and turned him over to the ex husband. What can we do as grandparents to see our grandson that was moved from NC to WV? I am out on my own, I presently donrt work, but my fiance does, we have a home, and been together for a year now, my mother and I are in an argument and she now wants nothing to do with me, and saying I cant see or visit my son, and she is going to get grandparents rights to my other two who are 11 and 8 years old, I live in GEORGIA, and was wanting to get some advice on what should I do, is there anything I can do without having a lawyer? We live in Idaho and have been raising our two granddaughters, age 7 and 5, since Halloween 2006. The father and mother of the 7 year old are divorced and the mother, our daughter, had been granted the tax deduction for the 7 year old from the year 2000 on. Our question is if according to IRS laws we are entitled to the exemption on our taxes? My sister died in February 2007. She was married to the father of her two youngest children when she died. She has one older child with a different man. After her death both fathers signed a custody agreement for the three minor children to be raised by the maternal grandparents. Now both fathers are asking for custody of their respective children. We are afraid that the courts will allow the respective fathers custody and the children, who have expressed a desire to live with their father, will move and then later regret their decision. Do we have any hope of retaining guardianship of these children? What is the proceedure in Oklahoma to file custody of my unborn grandchild, the mother is 17, unmarried and a meth user? Do I have to allow my ex-inlaws to visit with the children when the children’s father is out of town. The father works out of town and is not home most of his weekends. Do I have to allow his family to see the kids on his weekend? So I guess what I want to know is if my son has any rights or do just the girl & her parents have all the rights. They are both 16 years old now & this is their baby – who then has the rights? My son & the ex or the ex’s parents? because every time we ask to see the baby it’s “I’ll have to ask my mom” My son does not have a job at this time & is going back to school in Jan. 07, he has had a lot of problems mentally dealing with everything & has depression & some other issues. Should we as his parents be paying the child support? We live in state of North Carolina & if my son wants to be in his childs life what steps does he need to take. What can I do as a parent to help him. If our Grandchildren’s mother, who is our daughter, is using cocaine or other illegal drugs, is there any way we can get temporary custody of the 2 minor children? Their father is out of state, and is court ordered to not have any visitation. We do not want to notify Department of Children and Family Services because of the power they have in placing the children. We are prepared to get our daughter into a rehab program if she will accept it and are prepared to take temporary custody of the children. Is it child abuse if a parent or guardian is using illegal drugs in the home while the children are in the home? Should we hire an attorney to have temporary custody assigned to us, the grandparents, and do we have to notify their father? i have a 14 yr old daughter that is pregnant and her mother is moving her to another state without my consent. we were never married and have never been to court concerning custodial rites, can this unborn child be placed for adoption without my consent? We live together and he is very temperamental and he has hurt me in various occasions but he has told me that if we separate his father will fight me for custody of my child. Is it possible for a grandparent to get custody of my son. She is insisting that she wants the “so called father” to be a part of her life. She is 17 and he is 18, I was reading over the birth certificate papers and I thought that I understood it to say that since she is a minor that her parents or legal guardian had to also sign the BC. We also believe that he is not the father. The problem is that my dad said when I have the baby he is going to put the father on child support or put him in jail. I don’t want him to do that because the father is helping support the baby and he has never forced me to do anything. My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. I left my husband and bought a house with money from his business, and hid it from him. Then I bought a second house, and hid that from him too. I’m being evicted from the second house and can’t find a buyer for the first house to pay off the second house. Have I commited fraud? What should I do? “Can the parents of deceased son be forced to submit to DNA testing. The son died eight years ago and the paternity of the child had never been established. Now the maternal mother has threatened to file a civil suit against the parents of deceased son if they do not comply with her request to submit to DNA testing. This is not a life-threatening situation.” My daughter-in-law is threatening to take our grandson away from my son here in Florida and move to New York with her relatives. Is there any recourse that we or my son have to keep her from taking that wonderful little boy from us?” Can a grandparent demand a paternity test on the grandchild? With or without the parent’s consent? There are very few grandparents rights, and it may be possible to keep grandparents away from seeing their grandchildren, but it isn’t always advisable. Are there any laws protecting grandparents rights in Oklahoma? As of May of 2005, there are in fact laws protecting grandparents legal rights in Oklahoma.
