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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.
b) who has the consent of the local authority where the child is in their care or c) has the consent of every one who has parental responsibility for the child. If an applicant cannot apply for the order as of right they can make an application to the court seeking leave to issue the application.
This week a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that requires minors in the state to get parental permission to access contraception through a federally funded family planning program known ...
In 2012, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Center, there were 2.7 million children or 4% of all children who are being raised by grandparents or other kinship care. [2] According to a 2003 U.S. Census Bureau report, 2.4 million grandparents had primary responsibility for their coresident grandchildren younger than 18. [3]
Filial support laws were an outgrowth of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601. [2] [3]At one time [year needed], as many as 45 U.S. states had statutes obligating an adult child to care for his or her parents.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 2.7 million grandparents raising their grandchildren in 2009. [18] The dramatic increase in grandparent-headed households has been attributed to many factors including parental substance abuse. [ 19 ]
”You shattered my family’s life. You stabbed two of the most important people in my life,” said Tye Jones in a victim impact statement.