Grandparents’ rights by state Although all 50 states have grandparents’ rights in place, around 20 states have what are called restrictive visitation statutes. These states, like Alabama and Georgia, only allow a grandparent to petition the court for visitation rights if the child’s parents ...
Among the questions: were the children living with the grandparents? Were they living separately, in different residences? Where are the parents in all of this? LOOK: Here is the richest town in each state Just saying the names of these towns immediately conjures up images of grand mansions,...
rights by providing an evaluation of the impact of the proposed visitation or its absence on a grandchild.In a New Jersey case, the father of two children had obtained a divorce from his wife and received sole custody of the children after his wife was proven to be a habitual drug user....
Today, every state has enacted legislation that authorizes such orders under certain circumstances despite the objection of the children's parents. Although the U.S. Supreme Court in Troxel v. Granville (2000) struck down what it characterized as the "breathtakingly broad" grandparent visitation ...
We test whether the co-residence of older parents with their adult children of reproductive age increases the chance of them forming a multichild family. U