Do you know about grandparents’ custody rights?
Grandparents custody rights dictate how free a person is to contact their grandchildren. There are two visitation statutes that guide this visitation by grandparents, namely: (i) permissive visitation and (ii) restrictive visitation. Permissive visitation applies when the child’s family is intact and his/her parents are still alive while restrictive visitation applies when the child’s parents are divorcing or when they have died—one or both of them. It is important that a person is granted the grandparents’ custody rights from a court of law because they will have legal rights to do so. No one will sue them for visiting their grandchildren afterwards.