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    Default Re: What Are a Teenage Minor's Rights Relating to Her Pregnancy

    Quote Quoting urbanchickenmom
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    I guess I should have been a little more specific when I said that the father could gain custody. He will establish paternity by signing the birth certificate which is what he and my niece want. He WANTS to be part of the child's life. So when my mother in law constantly says that he can't spend time with the child, I pointed out that if he is denied visitation then he can take her to court and possibly end up with custody if she continues to deny him access to the child. How would that work though if the courts granted him visitation and the grandmother refused to let him on her property? My niece is helpless in that situation so the courts wouldn't go after HER would they?

    Btw, last year the grandmother made my husband and I promise that we would take my niece in if something happened to her. Of course we would take her and the baby in. This is not on paper though so I know if anything came up, our verbal agreement means nothing in the eyes of the court system. We are all my mil and niece have. That doesn't mean it's always peaceful or that we agree with each other on many topics. But my gosh is it ever emotionally exhausting.

    Hopefully everything will work out and peace will resume. I actually just left their house after holding a family meeting. There was yelling and there were tears. But it was good to finally get ALL of our feelings and frustrations out and we left hugging and telling each other that we loved one another. It's just going to be a constant work in progress and hoping they will both seek counseling at least so they can talk about their feelings with someone outside of the situation.
    Signing the birth certificate isn't the only thing he has to do to establish his paternity especially if he wants visitation rights.

    No he can't "end up with custody" if he's denied visitation. I guess that your niece is going to have to figure out how he sees the kid as long as she lives with grandma. Grandma doesn't have to let him on her property at all. But if he's denied visitation then yeah they could get her for contempt if HE takes it to court. If he never files contempt then nothing happens. (Ex: my ex husband had every other weekend and six weeks in the summer with his two kids with other ex wife. She would deny him visitation until she got child support which I paid - that's illegal and I told him to take her to court for contempt. He wouldn't - so she got away with it).

    If she dies and her parents don't want her then you could file for custody yes. The only way to get things to work is get grandma to realize she can't control this baby and she needs to not control her granddaughter so much.

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    Default Re: What Are a Teenage Minor's Rights Relating to Her Pregnancy

    Were the parents rights terminated ? Did a court give the grandmother legal custody of the grandaughter ?

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    Default Re: What Are a Teenage Minor's Rights Relating to Her Pregnancy

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    Were the parents rights terminated ? Did a court give the grandmother legal custody of the grandaughter ?
    Her parents didn't know how to take care of a child. My sil called her parents the day she got home from the hospital saying she had a headache and needed them to watch the baby. So it started off that way. My in laws (father in law died 2 years ago) would never tell my sil "No". Eventually my niece was with the grandparents more than her own parents. Then it got to the point that when my niece WAS home, she would call people crying that she was hungry. Her parents slept all the time, would drag my niece to the bowling alley all hours of the night so they could do karaoke, and they rarely had food in the house. My in laws eventually talked them into signing over all rights and the court granted my in laws as her legal guardian. The parents live in town. The mother sees my niece maybe 5 times a year and the father hasn't seen her in probably 10 years or longer. Neither parent has gotten my niece a Christmas or birthday gift in years. My nieces dad doesn't even know her birthday anymore. Basically they are pathetic. I've asked my niece what her mom has had to say about the pregnancy but she said her mom doesn't talk to her. Yet the mom is on Facebook all day long. She THINKS she's a Facebook star. It makes me livid seeing her partying every weekend, going on trips, shopping, etc all the time. But she can't see her own child.
    OK...my blood pressure is rising just typing that.

    Quote Quoting Mercy&Grace
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    Were the parents rights terminated ? Did a court give the grandmother legal custody of the grandaughter ?
    Oh and the main reason they talked my nieces parents into giving up their rights is so they could sign papers,request medical records, school records, etc. It was a hassle trying to get my nieces parents to take care of the things that a responsible parent would have common sense to do.
    Ugh!

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