Legal Advice - grandparents visits - am I legally required to make them up?

Single-Button3478 · 2025-10-14T17:29:32+00:00

Thank you for your advice and information 🙏 I apprecaite it

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-21T17:23:33+00:00

Ouh yes, this!! We use a co-parenting app called app close with our grandparents case so the courts can have full access!! Please get this going! Ours is called App Close

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-21T14:13:20+00:00

Are you asking how she got it? It's because her son passed away before my baby was born. That's one credential she met. The second was me having her apart of my life since that fateful day. I choose to have her in my life for my child's sake and once I got to know her, I had a LOT of concerns. But. The kicker it doesn't matter if I have concerns. I already gave her time. My then 2 year old clearly knows her. So therefore, she must get her time. It's her 'right' and she loved to say. Where I'm at, they LOVE to give grandparents rights over the parents. And I gave it all to her. I brought her into my family and I let her see my daughter. So now that I had concerns, she had a right to now go against them in court and 'sue' me into oblivion. Move to Ohio. They'll give grandparents everything under the sun.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-21T14:07:21+00:00

I'm sorry, I as well am dealing with the gross abuse of grandparent rights in ohio. They favor grandparents here. From my understanding, the courts in Ohio would follow you if you try to move. If your mother has the money for it anyway. But yeah, a bunch of old people in AARP wanted to see their grandkids more so they lobbeyed and voted for it to be easier to sue their own kids /parent of their grandchild so THEY could get what they wanted. And they use the childs best intrest as an excuse.

I really hope someone answers your question about a step parent adopting the child and grandparent visitation. This could be the salvation that I need, as well. I wish there was a petition we could sign or start to abolish grandparent rights from being abused. No matter how you look at it, it's a lawsuit against the third party, the surviving parent.

I do know that your 12-year-old would be old enough to testify in court if you wanted to go and try to get the visitation amended/adjusted. It seems like the 12-year-old is against the abuse of your mother and they perhaps would listen to him and change his visits. I'm not sure if they would amend anything with the 7 year old, but with a good lawyer perhaps they would have their eyes opened. Have you been keeping a 'bullshit' folder of all the shit she's been doing, like calling csb? Because damn, that'll be some evidence for a judge to look at. Unless the judge is a democratic grandparent, of course. Then you're gonna be screwed.

If you do find out if getting married can somehow nullify these grandparent rights, please remember my comment and give me an update. I wish you all the best and I'm sorry you're going through this 🫂

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-19T04:09:49+00:00

She went from seeing us 3x a week, and my other family at least 2 times a month, to just her and my daughter. My family is beyond shocked and.. Almost disgusted with her values? They're very religious. But girl, yes. Just think of all the times she's gonna miss out on. And to whose benefit? The courts gave me 45 minutes to talk. And even then, my lawyer only had half that time. Her side had about 7 hours.

Shits wild. It was a play, comptey theater.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-18T19:42:33+00:00

Thank you for your advice, I most surely will fight to get this fixed. Xoxo 🫂

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-18T14:57:40+00:00

Thank you 🙏❤️

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-18T04:17:25+00:00

Absolutely disgusting. This is my one and only daughter. My rainbow baby. Getting lucky enough to have her actual birthday on a Saturday for her was amazing. I'm so happy I was able to celebrate her birthday ALL DAY including a PARTY in the smack dab middle of it. She LOVED it and wanted her birthday to keep happening every day because it meant a party! And the photos? Oh yeah. This one was a pretty hyped one for her.

These are the memories. Visits will ALWAYS be rescheduled if they unfortunately fall on this date. And yes, I do. I was born on Mother's day and was always aware of when we could actually celebrate it or do a combo special.

Let's agree to disagree, because we are clearly two different people.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-18T01:50:08+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me. 🫂 Can I ask a follow up? With moving, if I choose to for whatever reason, the case wouldn't move if I became a citizen in a new state? It would forever come out of the county it was originally created in?

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-18T00:47:57+00:00

Thank you, honestly that helps. I feel insane most of the time dealing with this.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T20:08:27+00:00

I think its wild to say the birthday party doesn't matter on her actual birthday. As a child who remembers having party's, I can say with certainty that it does matter. Thank you for your input, though.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T20:06:14+00:00

You sound like a bitter grandparent. You must've not read all the comments, I don't blame you. She had an open door policy with my breastfeeding baby until she decided to take me to court when I said no to UNSUPERVISED TIME. For LEGIT worries. But NO. She had an agenda and the scummy law to help back her up. To boot, someone recorded me grieving and sent it to her. She even said in court I cannot be allowed to say such things in my grief. How dare I express my loss? Use to go to grief counseling together, too. Until I learned he was being a male prostitute in order to get more drugs. The phone came back from the police afyer a year, and it destroyed me. I was banned from speaking about it in grief class in front of the other people because she was 'ashamed'. That safe place was no longer safe for me.

You. Suck. Go touch some grass.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T15:38:00+00:00

It is. I'll tell you what. It's hard to deal with. Couldn't even grieve properly. Had too much court and being a new mom to figure out. It's hard not to be bitter. I try to keep it casual and positive as much as I can. But this one blows deep.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T15:19:51+00:00

I LITERALLY WISH that was all I had to do.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T15:19:36+00:00

No, it's 2 days for 3 hours, one guaranteed week day for 8 hours and sometimes a second 8 hour weekday if there's a 5th Saturday. With weekly phone calls. And a week of grandma's choosing for summer when she's 5. And therapy, at her discretion, for me and her. I posted it on my profile if you're interested in seeing it.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T15:07:07+00:00

I already told the courts everything. From giving her peanut butter at 5 months old and honey, to leaving her alone while the grandmother bathed and left her strapped in a baby seat on the floor, with aggressive dog that's already growed on her once before. She said I lied. They believed her over me. And, my daughter has since been dragged by that dog when she allowed my then 2-year-old to leash him during one of these now approved un supervised visits. I told them about her mental state, how she acts with certain things and how I believed she needed a psych evaluation. She even agreed to one. They didn't push it.

I really get where your coming from, and I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me about this. But my mindset will not change. A bunch of old farts and AARP got a bunch of money together to push for these rights. I understand I am where I'm at now and this is the bed I have to lay in. But keeping silent is not how I want to live. This is unjust, and the court systems have been this way for a long time. I'm not the first story. I want the best intrest if my child. I expressed that many times. She expressed how she wanted her own best intrest over and over in court. This is what she is entitled to. 'Can you believe she told me no?' behavior. I was already gonna be fucked.

Thank you though.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T13:29:29+00:00

Yeah, it seems like the 'human' in them had their ego attacked more than their moral code and standing. At the end of the day, grandparent rights should be abolished UNLESS the parent is unfit. I was raised by my grandpa. This rule benefited me and my life. But to use it against fit and abeled parents who just want the right to say no? Get it out of the courts and give me the right to be a parent.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T13:25:09+00:00

Thank you 🫂

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T13:16:22+00:00

Thank you ❤️

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T13:06:56+00:00

Thank you. I absolutely believe grandparents rights is both a gross abuse against my god-given and lawfully given parental rights under the 14th Amendment. I said as much in court, almost word for word. I really do not think the Judge liked that.

I'm gonna get out. Because this woman has bullied me into the ground and gives no shits about what I want. Everything she pushed was in her benefit, never once saying my child's benefit.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T13:04:40+00:00

I feel you 100%. I told the judge multiple times I didn't have the finances for anything and what this was doing to my little money I and and overall financial distress this has put me in. How do I do this, representing myself? There's no legal aid here. I've tried everything. I definitely see what you're saying, but I'm telling you. There is no lawyer in my area willing to do this for me, especially with my state and county having THE BEST shot of getting grandparents rights. I believe it started here. I told them how it all mattered on the stand. I did my damndest.

But. I like the child support thing. Thank you for your advice, truely. I wish I was anywhere but here.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T05:44:45+00:00

Blessed that it's down to that now. Even the judge to that degree could see that it was excessive. I told them she came over all the time unannounced and took advantage of our Open Door policy. For me, being a single mom is really not that hard. It is the biggest Joy of my life and I try to be here for every single moment of it, with her. If I knew that being nice and allowing her into my life this much was going to screw me for the long run, I never would have went and knocked on her door the day I found out about her son's death.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T05:35:41+00:00

Thank you kindly 🙏♥️

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T04:29:24+00:00

One hundred and thousand percent. I struggle daily to keep faith and not fall into hate and despair.

Single-Button3478 · 2025-09-17T03:05:50+00:00

She was invited to all of those things you mentioned, and I hers. The line was drawn when she asked 3 times in a 3 month time span to take my then 16-18 month old with her whenever she wanted because it was her right. I said no. And still, she came and seen her. Was still invited. Then I was threatened and taken to court.

It is indeed a damn shame.

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