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