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Grandparent visitation is a legal right that grandparents in some jurisdictions may have to have court-ordered contact (or visitation) with their grandchildren. In no case is contact between grandparents and children considered an inalienable right .
Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States, citing a constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, struck down a Washington law that allowed any third party to petition state courts for child visitation rights over parental objections.
Kinship care is a term used in the United States and Great Britain for the raising of children by grandparents, other extended family members, and unrelated adults with whom they have a close family-like relationship such as godparents and close family friends because biological parents are unable to do so for whatever reason.
In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
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At the final custody hearing, the judge awarded Tate full joint custody with her grandparents under "protective supervision of the court", adding that he would personally visit the child. [2] [6] She had publicized her case on radio and television talk shows. [9] Her attorney credited Jet readers for contributing to the court victory. [10]
Mama June Desiree Navarro/Getty Images Mama June Shannon has won a custody battle over her late daughter Anna Cardwell’s eldest child, Kaitlyn. The reality TV star, 44, was granted temporary ...
Doris Day's grandson says he wasn't allowed to see his ailing grandmother in her final years alive. Ryan Melcher, whose father is Day's late son, Terry Melcher, took to Facebook to reveal that he ...