[anonbmmy]

I live in Virginia. I'm 16 weeks pregnant, and know that my boyfriend is the father of my baby, since ive not been with ANYONE else in over a year. My boyfriends parents are saying that its not my boyfriends baby. this has caused much stress for me as they have been spreading rumors around our VERY small town and I constantly get looks from people who think im trying to force my boyfriend to stay with me by using a baby that isnt his. (my boyfriend and i are both very happy together and the baby is his.) I was wondering if after the baby is born and i have a paternity test taken, when it comes back that the baby is his can my boyfriends parents "sign" their rights away? They want nothing to do with the child anyway, and i dont want to take a chance if something were to happen to me and my bf and the child needed a gaurdian. I dont want them to ever be able to claim they have a right to custody of our child. Even though they dont want anything to do with our child, they are the type of people who woudl take the child just so that no one would talk badly about them, or so that people would dote on how great they are for taking care of that child that isnt theirs. My boyfriend agrees that they should sign their rights away. Is this possible? i know parents can, but can grandparents?

[LawResearcherMissy]

The grandparents don't have any rights to sign away.

If you and your boyfriend don't want his parents to have anything to do with the baby, you don't have to let them.

[anonbmmy]

The grandparents don't have any rights to sign away.

If you and your boyfriend don't want his parents to have anything to do with the baby, you don't have to let them.

Im just worried because my aunt died and her son was given to his paternal grandmother who had nothing to do with him since his birth. My grandmother has been fighting in court without much luck to try to get him back.