Usually the State child welfare/protective services agency will intervene in such a case. Before someone obtains permanent legal custody, the parents' rights must be terminated, either voluntarily or by court order.
You have full and primary rights to your children. Grandparents do not have custody rights to children over parents.
Child's Choice of Managing Conservator (custodial or primary residential parent)If the child is 10 years of age or older, the child may, by writing filed with the court, choose the managing conservator, subject to the approval of the court. TEX.FAM.CODE ANN. § 153.008. The court retains discretion to determine whether to honor the child's choice. Further, in a non-jury trial the court may interview the child in chambers to determine the child's wishes as to conservatorship. TEX.FAM.CODE ANN. § 153.009. Upon the request of a party, the court must interview the child.This is up to the judge. The Texas law does not specifically address this. But, there are alternatives. see links
If the grandparents have had custody the parents of the child have to pay them child support. If you by child care mean daycare that is also the parents who pay for that.
The father's parents are the paternal grandparents. The mother's parents are the maternal grandparents.
If both parents are agreeable to the situation, or the parent wishing the child to pay his or her grandparents a visit receives permission from the court that issued the custodial order.
That depends on why the mother lost custody in the first place. The court must have granted the grandparents custody for some reason. If they have custody now you have to apply in court for the custody to be moved.
Only if the parents are found unfit does the grandparents as well as other relatives have a chance for custody.
It's not custody, it's guardianship, and there's no cost.
No, only parents or grandparents are mentioned in the custody rights laws of the different states and not always grandparents either. It's up to the court when you apply for custody.
Yes.
If the baby's parents agree to it.Another View: To gain LEGAL custody: onlyif the grandparents petition the court for the childs custody and the court awards it to them.
Not unless your grandparents are granted custody/guardianship by the court.
Not enough unfortunately. Usually, if the child is removed from both parents' care before legal guardianship is established, the child is remanded to the custody of the state. At that point, it becomes more difficult (and expensive) for grandparents to gain custody. There are heartbreaking stories all over the place of grandparents trying in vain to get custody of their grandchildren.
That's a matter for the courts to revoke the custody agreement.
If he is legally emancipated, or both parents are deemed unfit, or if the grandparents gain legal custody, then yes.
Yeah, they have several of the same rights.
Their rights start where the parents' rights begin. If the parents are actively parenting, the child is thriving and nothing illegal is going on, then the grandparents are honor bound to support, not supplant, the parents. If the parents are out of the picture, the grandparents can certainly apply to become guardians of the child.