Notes On Grandparent Custody Durham NC

By Jennifer Smith


In times when the care from parents is not sufficient or conducive for the kid, then the grandparents feel the need to step in and take care or protect the young ones. It was not legally allowed until very recently whereby the courts have come up with conservatorship law that caters for the grandparents custody. Therefore, grandpas and grandmas visitation rights have been approved by the courts and recognized. The subsequent article offers a general overview on grandparent custody Durham NC.

Courts in Durham NC first consider the relationship between the teen and his or parentages before putting him or her under the care of their grand mums or grandfathers. In most cases as cited above this occurs as result of deceased parents and if the grandparents are not old and are fit they can be granted the guardianship. However, if either of the parent is alive or both and the grandparents want full custody of their grandchild then they have to prove that the parentages are unfit.

Children adopted by their own relatives and in this account their grandparents are certain to stay in those homes compared to kids adopted by stranger temporary care parents. This apparently happens because of lack of connection, sometimes when personalities and the way of doing things defer there is guaranteed to be disagreements and fights.

In other states the laws stipulated state that the adoption of a child has merely no effect on the rights for visitation of grandparents, as long as their legally requirements are accomplished. These legal requirements involve a concrete relationship with the child with some evidence given, the parents if alive have given their consent on it and the judge has granted him or her the right.

There is an age limit in substitute care or under adoptive care homes. Once one hits the age of eighteen he or she might get little support or no support at all. At times these foster children have no jobs or something to depend on therefore they are left to struggle through life themselves. However some adoptive homes regularly offer checkups on these teenagers to ensure they are okay.

Marital status between the two parents is also another dynamic that the courts consider. The two parents whether deceased or alive must have concrete evidence proving that they were married so as to ensure that the grandparents seeking the custody of the child are related. If not so then the court cannot grant the safekeeping because there is no evidence.

It is however imperative to note that children are left on the mercy of foster care due to some few reasons and apart from death of parents, substance abuse may contribute to the care or even mental health problems either possessed by the father or mother. Therefore foster homes may decline the request of giving the relatives the right to take care of these kids. This is because there is a perception that the mental health problem might be hereditary.

It is imperative to note that the privileges do not only involve the nurturing and care of the child but also the making of decision on behalf of the kid if for example he or she is not eighteen years old and above. As much as these cases hardly go through in Durham NC most grandparents have been granted the right to take care of their grandchildren.




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