Maybe that’s something you hadn’t thought about. Grandparents visitation.
Do Grandparents Have Rights to See Grandchildren If the Parents Don’t Want Them To? No matter how close grandparents are to their grandchildren, they rarely have a legal right to visitation or custody.
Effective July 1, 2015, Grandparent’s Rights in the State of Florida have changed. Before, a grandparent could petition for visitation rights if the parent’s marriage had been dissolved, a parent had deserted the child, or the child was born out of wedlock and the parents never married.
Can grandparents sue for visitation rights in Florida?
Grandparents can sue for visitation if the parents of their grandchild are deceased, missing or in a persistent vegetative state. … While in many states the 2000 Supreme Court case of Troxel v. Granville made visitation with grandchildren harder to obtain, in Florida this process was already well underway
Can a parent deny a grandparent visitation?
If a child’s parent or parents has denied or unreasonably restricted access to a grandparent, a court will presume that visitation is not in the child’s best interest.
Steven W. Hair, focuses his practice as a divorce attorney, family law attorney in Clearwater, Palm Harbor, and Safety Harbor.
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