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Title: Can Grandparents Seek Their Grandchildren’s Child Custody in Fort Worth?


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Can Grandparents Seek Their Grandchildrens Child
Custody in Fort Worth?
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  • The second question which arises is who is going
    to have the child custody i.e. either the mother
    or the father.
  • If the couple faces any problems as in arranging
    any suit to the court for the custody, then
    either of the parents can file a suit in the
    court for custody.
  • In most of the cases, Fort Worth courts generally
    declare that it is the parents who have the legal
    rights to take responsibility of as in what is
    best for their children.

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What Are The Grandparents Rights For a Child
Custody Process in Fort Worth?
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  • As per my knowledge areas of Fort Worth, in most
    of the cases the grandparents have rights to
    gain a child custody or visitation of the
    grandchildren. They are not universal but they
    are based on state statutes.
  • These laws allow grandparents to relish the legal
    rights to visit a child.

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State Laws Support Grandparent Visitation
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  • Restrictive Visitation
  • Youre allowed (grandparents) to seek visitation,
    if the legal guardian are divorced or dead. A
    parent who has been accused of neglecting a child
    in the past or threatening to take the child away
    from the other parent may be restricted to visits
    supervised by a qualified third-party.
  • 2. Permissive Visitation
  • Youre allowed to appeal for visitation, if the
    legal guardians are alive or still actively
    engaged. Some states allow caretaking adults
    besides grandparents to make such a petition,
    usually requiring that the caretaker must have
    lived in the home with the child for a certain
    period of time in order to be able to file a
    request for visitation.
  • The main objective of the court is to bring the
    best decision as which will favor in best
    interests of your grandchild.

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What Factors Determine The Best Interests of The
Child?
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  • Physical and emotional health needs of child
  • It is very important to see that the child main
    necessities are been provided. Not only in food,
    have clothing and shelter but also healthcare and
    medical facility wised.
  • Welfare
  • It is the duty of the custodial parents to look
    after the welfare of the child and choose
    decision wisely as getting divorced already has
    played mental imbalanced in the minds of the
    children and utmost care should be taken for
    their welfare.
  • Capability of parents or grandparents to meet
    childs needs
  • Talking about capability would be to support the
    child not only financially but also emotionally
    till their pubescent age.
  • Wishes of child if child is capable of making
    decisions
  • The child should be allowed to take decisions
    based on his life, if he/she is legally adult.
    Parents should not force their decisions on the
    child and should support him in every aspect.

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  • Strength of relationship between grandparents and
    grandchild
  • Sometimes due to various neglected factors the
    relationship between the grandparents and
    grandchildren strengthens which helps to
    strengthen their bond, such cases should be
    tactfully handled and decisions should be in
    childs favor.
  • Evidence of substance abuse by parents or
    grandparents
  • This particularly belongs to cases where children
    are bought up by abusive, drugged or alcoholic
    parents. They see their parents through a
    different opinion and hence such childrens
    witnessing such events leads them to face lots of
    difficult situations.
  • Childs adjustment to home, school, or community
  • Soon after the child custody is been handled to
    the concern, the child needs to adjust his life
    with new locality, friends, peer pressure and
    many more and there guardian must see to it that
    the child doesnt feels left out and is been well
    adjusted in the new environment.

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Can Grandparents Hold Legal Child Custody?
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Grandparents Taking Custody While The Parents are
Still Alive!!
  • Yes there are ways, where you as in grandparent
    can hold a legal child custody as in the courts
    mostly declare the parents to be their legal
    guidance for the child custody but when an
    arbitrator or any third party is involved the
    court balances the parents rights as well as it
    seeks to give decision as which is best for their
    children.
  • So if you feel as in the grandparents that your
    grandchild would be more happy and comfortable to
    live with you, you need to present an imperative
    case, here are some helpful tips

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Some Circumstances Where Warrant Placing a Child
With You as in Grandparent May Include
  • You can obtain child custody, if both the parents
    are unable or hesitating to take the
    responsibility of the child.
  • Both in the pair are suspected to be ill-equipped
    or inadequate.
  • Both in the pair are willing to give their child
    custody to grandparents.
  • Any crime, delinquency in the parents home.
  • Drug or alcohol abuse in the childs home.
  • A parents mental illness
  • Or the last, one is ready to take the child but
    is unfit while other is not ready to take the
    child custody.

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Grandparents taking custody after the guardian
dies!!
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Some Circumstances That May Work in the
Grandparents favor are
  • Suppose, the guardian or legal parent dies, the
    courts first choice to place the child is often
    with the other parent but if the parents has not
    been recently actively involved in the childs
    life, then it the close blood relative.

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  • If your grandchild and custodial parent were
    living under the same roof then, staying with you
    could provide stability.
  • The pair left a Will naming you as guardians.
  • The child wants to willingly live with you as in
    grandparents.
  • Fort Worth court also considers the age, health
    and financial condition of the grandparents as
    how can they take responsibility of their
    grandchild.

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So as a grandparent if you want your grandchilds
custody and are not unable to find whom to contact
  • Contact Us

Fort Worth child custody attorney
https//www.fortworth-civil-attorney.com
The Law Office of J. Kevin Clark P.C.
777 Main Street, Suite 600Fort Worth, TX 76102
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