legal rights of grandparents

• Grandparents have rights after all: no area of custody law is more fraught with conflict between the rights of a child and the legal rights of a parent than the area of third party custody involving grandparents.

Just when thought grandparents' rights, or the lack thereof, was a settled issue, it has become apparent that one area has not been settled. Do grandp...

• Florida Bar Journal
• Vol. 76 Nbr. 1, January 2002

• In re T.J., (Ohio 2010)

Trial court's termination of mother's legal custody and award of same to grandparents did not violate mother's constitutional due process rights

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Grandparents Raising Children Speak Out Bill Would Boost Guardians' Rights

ORRINGTON - Parents are not the only ones raising children today, and antiquated state laws need to be updated to reflect the shift and give guardians more legal rights, a group of grandparents rearing their grandchildren are saying. The group of six local grandparents, each caring for their children's children, decided last fall that a bill was needed to give de facto guardianship a stronger legal status.

• Bangor Daily News
• May 02, 2005

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• The Columbian
• November 29, 2011

• In re B.K., (Ohio 2011)

Legal Custody; Grandparents; Manifest Weight of the Evidence; Abuse of Discretion; Best Interest of the Child; Guardian Ad Litem; Conflict; Rules of Superintendence. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting legal custody of two minor children to their paternal grandparents as such finding did not amount to an abuse of discretion where children have thrived in grandparents' temporary custody after being found neglected and dependent children. In addition, The trial court did not err in denying mother's motion to appoint a new guardian ad litem where the children had not consistently and repeatedly expressed a strong desire inconsistent with that of their guardian ad litem's recommendations. Furthermore, the trial court did not err by failing to require guardian ad lite...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Sen. Tom Harkin Holds a Hearing On the Education Budget and Jobs Crisis

... Legal barriers to reform have been eliminated, progressi... the education of what will be their grandparents and great-grandparents today so that they'll have ...Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved....

• Political Transcript Wire
• April 19, 2010

• (Grand) Parents

services The Scenic Valley Area Agency on Aging in Dubuque has federal funds available to help grandparents age 55 and older who are raising their grandchildren. "I haven't worked with anyone in that situation yet," said Joan Ness, a family caregiver specialist with the agency that assists older people to lead independent, meaningful and dignified lives in their own homes. Despite radio advertisements for the past two years, the agency has yet to dole out any funds to the growing number of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Ness wouldn't speculate as to why the agency hasn't been able to find qualified grandparents. When a qualified grandparent does call the agency, Ness would work with that individual to determine what financial help the agency could offer and if any oth...

... of why his grandmother, not his mother, has legal guardianship of him. The teenager's mother was onl... illness that caused them to lose parental rights or were incarcerated. A Pew Research Center study ...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• November 06, 2011

• In re T-G.M., (Ohio 2011)

permanent custody, termination of parental rights, legal custody, R.C. 2151.414

... of legal custody to the paternal grandparents.    {¶14}  When determining whether a gran...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Grandparental Visitation: Its Evolution In New York State

... extensive history with the maternal grandparents, including, but not limited to, spending entire su... to utter even a syllable, whether legal (in support of their case of automatic standing an...8 . I. Common Law Rights of Grandparents Prior to the 1966 Statute. The hea...

• Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal
• Nbr. II-2, May 2004

• Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)

... "[a]ny person" to petition for visitation rights "at any time" and authorizes state superior courts..., and Michael Schuster; for Grandparents United for Children's Rights, Inc., by Judith Spe...Farris; for the Christian Legal Society et al. by Kimberlee Wood Colby, Gregory ...

• U.S. Supreme Court