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I'll try to make this short
Son adopted his cousin's daughter. Cousin's rights were terminated by court as well as father's. Child was adopted at 1.5 yr. The Gma of the cousin wants visitation rights after no contact for 3.5 years. Says she has come into alot of money and will fight for visitation. Adoption has long since been finalized and in the papers states mother has no contact. My son has allowed the bio Gma of father to have limited contact ( no visitation or contact just pictures and updates and allowed to send gifts). No other person has been allowed according to courts to have any contacts with child. The bio mom lives with bio gma. What right does bio gma have. She had the option to adopt or foster in the begining but choose not to. Advice?:confused:
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She has no rights. There isn't anything she can do to get any rights. She can say anything she wants about getting visits, etc.,, but it will not make it so.
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CaddoRose
She has no rights. There isn't anything she can do to get any rights. She can say anything she wants about getting visits, etc.,, but it will not make it so.
Agreed. Nothing she could do, but just bug him. I would change phone nomers or something.
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Thank you all for the advice. My son called CPS post adoption services and they told him he could have the woman arrested. My son doesn't want that so CPS is going to call her and tell her she has no rights. It was a closed adoption and all paperwork is in order. We all find comfort in that. I was so worried they woud have to hire a lawyer.
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The others are correct and your grand daughter's biological grandmother does not have rights and she can't get them now... too little, too late.
However, there is another way to proceed. Our daughter is 2 1/2 and her adoption was finalized at about 18 months old. We have chosen to keep her biological grandparents in her life. The way we see it, you can't have too many people who love you.
When time comes that we need information about her health history or what her birthmother was like as a child, we have a ready soure of information.
That being said, her bio grandparents are supportive of our role as parents. They visit on our terms and we get together once a month. M's birth mom is not a safe person and they know that, so they do everything they know of to make sure that she doesn't know when they are visiting.
The moment they demonstrate that they are not supportive of our role as her parents, they will lose the priviledge of knowing their grand daughter.
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