Grandparents often take over guardianship of their grandchildren to legally obtain medical care for the child or remove the child from a difficult or unsafe home. State courts with jurisdiction over matters of custody and family-related issues grant guardianships when specific circumstances of neglect, ...
“We believe that children are best raised by families or by the support of families. Maybe it’s not always a biological family—it can be friends or grandparents,” says Puckett, who manages four specialists who pro...
He’s in third grade and I’m unaware of parents being invited to elementary school lunch once weekly and, the hateful other partner, would no doubt claim it somehow violated the custody agreement. So, while the tale of Abby and Bailey is loving, the post never really got round to addr...
In many states, guardianship is automatically assigned to the next of kin, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles or adult children. In some states, such as North Carolina, anyone can petition the court to appoint them as a guardian [1]. In Georgia, if the child is over a certain age...
Grandparents were often present to help with the new baby. Extended-family members often lived under one roof or just down the road; children saw their relatives often enough to know who was who. Today, this is frequently not the case. Modern extended families can be quite different fr...
A co-parenting agreement is simply a contract that binds you both to certain items as they pertain to how you will behave towards each other and the children for the sake of raising healthy kids. This may also be called a custody agreement, parenting plan, or a custody and visitation agree...
After a bitter ongoing custody battle and multiple scary incidents in their family, Tameka Raymond and Usher‘s relationship grows more and more strained. But they can work to make their family’s heartache allow them to grow closer together, for the sake of their two young children. The ...
If you are filing a petition for involuntary guardianship -- for example, a child that has been placed in the custody of Oregon Department of Human Services due to abuse or neglect charges against the current custodian or parent -- you will draft the petition without an affidavit. You will...
Kira, a 12-year-old girl who saw her father shot and killed, was evacuated from Mariupol to Donetsk with shrapnel wounds on her ear, leg, neck and arm. Kira was reunited with her grandparents only after the office of the Ukraine deputy prime minister got involved. Her grandmother, Svitla...
In the grandparents’ home is one of their sons — so the victim’s uncle. Come to find out, this kid had been molested by the uncle. The uncle is molesting every girl child in this home. So kids sometimes tell us things because they don’t want to name the uncle. It’s ...