More grandparents are becoming educated with strategies and information about how other grandparents are winning custody and visitation rights in the family courts. If you are a concerned grandparent seeking information and strategies on grandparents […]

Grandparents rights are hard enough to win in court without false charges and unfounded accusations being added to the mix. Yet, when grandparents have to fight their own children for grandparent rights or custody of […]

These days many grandparents have taken on the primary role as parents to their grandchildren. Issues like drugs, poverty, child abuse and other social ills have caused many grandparents to become the caregivers for their […]

Grandparents custody is on the rise these days, and this may very well be due to the percentages of marriage that end in divorce. Also the premature death of a parent, parental problems with drugs […]

In June of 2000 the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision on grandparents visitation rights in the Troxel vs Granville case. This ruling canceled out a Washington State law that permitted judges to grant visitation […]

Some states allow grandparents guardianship, which is a category between grandparents visitation and grandparents custody. Guardianship has the same effect as providing parental authority to a grandparent (or in some cases another third party). Generally, […]

Under the constitution, grandparents have no legal rights spelled out. According to the constitution a parent that is found to be fit has the controlling decision over the children even if that includes alienating them from […]

When parents divorce the grandparents worry about many things, especially grandparents visitation rights. Some divorce situations can get ugly and the grandparents suddenly find themselves shut out of seeing their grandchildren. Grandparents may wonder many things […]

When confronted with how to legitimately exert your grandparents rights, take the following steps in order. It is not easy to do thing this way, but under the law this is the process which will […]

The issues surrounding grandparents rights have really become remarkably controversial in recent years, as state after state has confronted the issues with legislation and individual grandparents have been forced to turn to the courts to […]

Many different factors go into determining grandparents visitation rights when it comes to grandparents, grandchildren, and the courts. There are certainly some general guidelines for grandparents rights, but each state has different laws and factors. […]

In the USA grandparents have always had limited rights to visitation and custody of their grandchildren, and in 2000 the US Supreme Court limited these rights even further through its decision in the case of […]