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    Angry Grandparent Visitation Laws and Rights

    My question involves paternity law for the State of: Minnesota

    What rights do grandparents have in Minnesota? I am asking this because my daughter's dad's mother brought my daughter to her great grandpa's house several times and we just recently found out that he has molested my daughter's grandmother in the past. For some reason my daughter's grandmother still hangs out with him and invites him to family outings and acts like it never happened. However she has driven our daughter to Wisconsin to visit this man and I don't want my daughter anywhere near any of them now that I know all of this because her grandmother seems to lack some serious common sense. I just feel that it is wrong that she has brought her around a child molester and sees absolutely nothing wrong with that. I am just trying to protect my daughter, but now she is threatening to take me to court for visitation because I have not let her see her since November. She is harassing me via text messages and I have saved all of those for evidence. I have tried to set up other visits for her-- I told her I would take her out to eat and bring our daughter so that she could spend time with her- but she wasn't patient and wouldn't wait the 3 days I asked her to and started sending me angry texts again. I am just fed up with this entire situation and I want to get a no contact order against her because she refuses to leave me alone. I have asked her countless times to leave me alone and if she wants to see our daughter she will have to wait until her son feels like driving her over there. For some reason she never contacts him though she always just yells at me. I already changed my phone number but now I am scared she is going to go through with this and try to take me to court. If the judge knows my side of the story and I have texts proving all of this do I have anything to worry about?? sidenote: I am a good mother. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs so she has absolutely no reason to take her away from me. She is just retired and bored and seems to have nothing else to do but try to ruin our lives :/ She has been pushing me around and has been trying to control our entire family since she found out I was pregnant in the first place- saying where my daughter was going to get baptized, what she was going to wear to her baptism, what religion she was going to be, taking my daughter over state lines to visit people I don't even know without my permission, etc. I finally put my foot down a few months ago and told her no more of this because I honestly can't take it anymore =/ I tried to be the bigger person one time and invited her to our daughter's birthday party even though I hate her, and ever since she's done nothing but continually nag about how she never sees her enough and doesn't realize that all of the nagging and harassing is only pushing me further and further away. I want my daughter as far away from this drama as possible and she is constantly causing it.

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    Default Re: Grandparent Visitation Rights in Mn

    If you've got documentation of harassment, then seeking a restraining order may benefit you. Keep in mind that an order restraining her from harassing you probably won't include an order regarding the child, unless there is clear evidence that she poses some threat to the child or has been harassing the child directly - so it wouldn't stop her from seeing the child on dad's time or from seeking visitation with the child through the courts.

    Until and unless grandma takes you to court, she has zero legal rights to visitation. However with that said, since there is already a relationship forged between her and the child, courts will TYPICALLY be reluctant to cut her out of the child's life. Given the molestation issue, if you can substantiate it to the court, you'll absolutely want to ask the court to specify that the visitation be supervised, or that it specify that the child cannot be around the molester, etc.

    It will not be a do-it-yourself project. If she files in court, you will want to retain an attorney to defend the interests of the child.

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    Default Re: Grandparent Visitation Rights in Mn

    saramb, I can't tell from your post whether or not you are still married to your daughter's father. If you are, then Grandma has zero rights to visitation. If the two of you are divorced, then this statute would apply: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/...dparent+rights.

    Minnesota may rule that grandma can have visitation, but grandma has to first show that she has an actual realtionship with your daughter. How old is your daughter? How often has grandma seen your daughter prior to this dispute? Has daughter spent a lot of overnights with grandma? These are questions the courts will ask to make their decision.

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