Grandparents right

weatherbyfoxer

Just wondering if anyone can clear up a concern,..do grandparents have a legal right to see there grandchild if both parents of the child are married and both agree it wouldnt be in the best of the child to get involved with them due to agressive behaviour towards there son/daughter prior to the grandchilds birth

dairina1991

I don't think so.
Most priority is your child's safety.
If you don't fell right for them to meet with the child due to their behavior, i don't think that anyone can force you to do other-ways. (correct me if im wrong)

Ken.

They can apply to court to get access.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/birth_family_relationships/relationships_life_event.html

Grandparents also have certain rights in relation to their grandchild. Where grandparents are having difficulty in maintaining contact with their grandchild, under the Children Act 1997 they can apply for leave to apply for access to the child through the District Court. If the grandparents are the main carer of the child and the child is not being properly financial maintained by either or both parents, the grandparents can apply to the District Court for a maintenance order. Grandparents may be able to adopt or foster a grandchild. Where parents dies without making a will appointing someone to act as guardian of their child, the grandparents can apply to the District Court to be appointed guardians. Treoir have published a booklet entitled Being there for them (pdf) for grandparents of children whose parents are not married to each other.

weatherbyfoxer

Thanks for the posts..not what was hoped to be honest!

Marcusm

Surely where both parents agree that the grandparent would not be a good influence on the child, any court would be reluctant to interfere with the inviolable constitutionally protected family unit.

0ph0rce0

Its not these two by any chance?

Peregrinus

Marcusm wrote: »

Surely where both parents agree that the grandparent would not be a good influence on the child, any court would be reluctant to interfere with the inviolable constitutionally protected family unit.

The grandparents can apply for access. It doesn't mean they'll get it.

Apart from the right to apply for access, they have no further rights. The rights are all with the child. "Is it in the best interests of this child that he or she should have contact with the grandparents?" is the question the courts will be asking. If the parents have reason to think that it is not in the child's interests to have anything to do with the grandparents, they can put that before the court.

Kumiko

Rant deleted. Pls do not post here again for at least a month.