Ohio grandparents’ legal rights, guidelines, regulations, and rules of law allow you to ask for visitation, and temporary custody of your grandchildren. OH grandparents can also file for full custody, guardianship, or adoption, to raise their grand-kids, through a OH family law custody court judicial process. The proper legal advice, guidance, and strategies are key to ensure a successful outcome to any predicament regarding your grandchildren. Fortunately, studies have shown that the “Best Interests” for your grandchildren is that they have an active relationship with their grandparents. Grandfathers and grandmothers can often provide a healthier and more stable environment than the children’s biological parents. As a result, Ohio’s “Best Interest of the Child” guideline fully supports a grandparents’ rights for visitation and custody. The legal extent to which you can visit, provide, and support your grandchildren will need to be determined and approved through a OH family law court hearing litigation process.
Children are all too often kept from their grandparents, or exposed to abuse and neglect. Typically, most if not all of these circumstances
are completely out of their control. This unhealthy environment is a damaging situation for children’s emotional and physical well-being. Children often don’t have a voice to be heard, and it is our responsibility as grandparents to be that voice. A voice that defends, supports, protects, and cares for all grandchildren that so desperately need our help.
The Ohio Judicial Legal System Recognizes the Importance of Grandparents’ Rights Regarding Visitation and Custody of Grandchildren; and Fully Understands That Abuse and Neglect are Prevalent in OH Families.
OH family law fully acknowledges the ability for grandparents to provide a positive and stable environment. An environment, which is able to provide leadership, and a parenting platform so many children desperately need. Grandchildren even spending limited time with their grandparents can help provide the much-needed comfort and security that children require on a regular basis.
The situation grandchildren are exposed to varies greatly. Some are in a positive stable environment, and grandparents are simply denied access or may be allowed very limited contact with their grandchildren. The other end of the spectrum is a situation that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. If you can prove your grandchildren are being subjected to an abusive and neglectful environment, the Ohio judicial system will act quickly and forcefully on your behalf. Don’t think for one second that as grandparents your rights will be restricted or limited. Remember, the “Best Interest of the Children” is a standard that is fully recognized and supported in the state of Ohio.
If your grandchildren are in an abusive or neglected environment you may file a petition for a OH child protective proceeding. If abuse, neglect, or imminent danger exist, child protective services may enforce an emergency removal of the children and place them into protective custody. A child protective proceeding is typically followed by a number of court hearings. A fact-finding court hearing is set to determine if the allegations are true. A dis-positional hearing is set to decide what should be done if the child has been neglected or abused. Finally, a permanency hearing is set to determine and finalize the permanent placement and security of the children.
It’s important to recognize, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) was established to ensure that any
child custody litigation occurs in the child’s “home state”. The “home state” is defined as the last state where a child has lived for 6 consecutive months with a parent. This act was adopted to discourage parents from moving out-of-state in an attempt to manipulate the judicial system for whatever reason. Parental attempted kidnapping by moving children to another state or jurisdiction was one of the main reasons the UCCJEA was adopted.
Ohio Grandparents’ Legal Rights, Guidelines, Regulations, and Rules of Law Enable You to Defend Your Visitation Rights, Fight for Custody, or the “Best Interests” of Your Grandchildren Through OH Family Law.
The modification to your grandchild’s custody situation may be modified in Ohio on your behalf. In some cases it will be a temporary modification based on a continuing effort of both parents to SUCCESSFULLY overcome the obstacles that prevent them from retaining full custody again. Parents inability to provide a safe, stable, humane, and secure home environment can be due to many different factors, including but not limited to: (substance abuse, incarceration, mental health issues, anger management, poor leadership skill sets, endangerment, physical abuse, emotional abuse, domestic violence, divorce, etc.). In other cases you may be awarded full custody. Often times, full custody comes with the option to legally adopt your grandchildren.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that you have no legal rights in the state of Ohio when it
comes to your grandchildren. OH family law will help ensure your grand-kids get what they deserve and need. Remember to focus your efforts on their “Best Interests” at all times. Your grandchildren will thank you when they are mature enough to realize the decisions and sacrifices you made for them and their future.
I cannot stress enough, the fact that grandchildren need their grandparents. For some grand-kids seeing their grandparents on a regular basis is the best option. Others need to be removed from a physically and emotionally damaging environment permanently. Grandparents are often the first and best option for children to find the stable and secure environment they desperately need and deserve. Check out the links below to help secure visitation with your grandchildren, or fight for the rights of someone who is unable to defend themselves.
- Click Here 😎 for a State-Specific GRANDPARENTS’ RIGHTS MANUAL, and a GRANDPARENTS GOING TO CUSTODY COURT TO ASSERT THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS MANUAL. Both Contain State-Specific Laws, Regulations, Guidelines, and Strategies for Ohio (OH), and all Fifty States. All the Necessary Legal Forms and Paperwork are Included to Provide the Tools You Need to Secure Visitation, and an Appropriate Environment for Your Grandchildren.
- Click Here 😎 if You or Someone You Know Wishes to Create Their Own Professional Quality Visitation Schedule, Visitation Calendar, Parenting Plan Agreement, Expense Reports, and MUCH MORE. This Allows You to Track Actual Visitation Time and Expenses, Prepare for any Negotiation or Court Appearance, Save $$$… on Attorney Fees, Spend Less Time in Court, and More Time with Your Grandchildren or Children.
The time to act is now, because all children deserve the best that our society has to offer. As a Ohio grandparent you have rights. 
These rights enable you to request visitation, and also allow you to be a voice for someone who may desperately need your help and support. Life can come with many challenges, but if you believe that everything happens for a reason then life’s challenges will suddenly become an obstacle with a manageable solution. Don’t forget, Ohio grandparents’ legal rights, regulations, guidelines, and rules of law, regarding grandchild visitation and custody, were also legislated for guidance, advice, and strategies to support the “Best Interests of the Children” standard through OH family law.
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I’m dealing with a paternal grandmother trying to get more and more visitation because she feels “she’s entitled”. She’s a narcissist, controls everyone and does not know the concept of boundaries. She does not respect the parents rights, and keeps taking us to court. Neither of us PARENTS have been found unfit. She is now trying to deter me from relocating to another state because I found a better job, that will provide my child with better opportunities, especially educationally. So just because you’re related by blood, harass in court and feel entitled…she shouldn’t prevent us from a better life just because she wants everyone to accommodate her “visitation”?
Brittany,
I am going through a very similar situation, and am curious what the outcome was for your situation. My son’s dad and I have not been together since he was a year old, he is 8 now.
A little over one year ago, my son found his dad dead as a result of using heroin (no one was aware his father suffered from this addiction until his death), and weeks after his death my son’s Dad’s mother made several suicidal comments to me. (Which she now denies, and has twisted into something else in the court room.) I never denied her visitation, but suggested until she got help that her time with my son be supervised, being my son had suffered such a traumatic event. She is the type of person who will not stop until she gets her way. Less than a month after my son’s father’s death, she disconnected service to my phone (I was on their family plan, paid my share for my phone every month.) Six days after that she filed for “Grandparent Rights”, and wrote in her statement to the court that she and her family had been denied all visitation since her son’s death. (Which is a lie.) She knew I was not in a position to afford an attorney, I feel she did this as an effort to “bully” me into giving her what she wanted. I managed to get myself legal representation. We have been going to court for a year next month, but I have not yet had the opportunity to present my side of case. Aside from her making threats of having thoughts of taking her own life, I have expressed multiple concerns that I have with the situation. Supporting my feelings for the need for supervised visits, including: her and her husband smoke inside their house while my son would visit(in their bedroom with the door closed), because they feel that is adequate. This has been going on for years, and I have expressed my concern, however it goes overlooked. There is a history of violent behavior in the home (my son witnessed her husband hitting her 3 years ago), mental abuse (she talks badly about me in front of my son, and says things to him like “Well I wanted you to spend the night, but your mommy is mean and won’t let you”). Her and her husband also have extensive health issues, and she is prescribed a slew of pharmaceuticals ranging from xanax, ambien, and vicotin. Which she takes several times a day, and had been prescribed to ever since I’ve known her. I also should add at the scene of her sons death the detective found one of her prescriptions at his apartment, she is also very manipulative and has very erratic behavior. She posts/publicly slanders me and my family on Facebook regularly. She logged into her deceased son’s twitter account and was harassing his friends and ex-girlfriend acting as if she were her son tweeting as she put “from the grave”. The court ordered visitation began with her being allowed 4 hours a month supervised visitation. This escalated to then 2 hours a week supervised visitation, and is now (and for 7 weeks has been) 4 hours a week unsupervised visitation. Throughout this process she has continually asked for more and more visitation as she is awarded more. Her request is a standard court order for parental visitation, as if she were his parent. In this 7 weeks of my son doing unsupervised visits with her, there has not been one visit in the past 7 weeks that any of my concerns have not been resurfaced. After the 1st visit my son had a nightmare and told me it was of his grandpa hitting his grandma. When I asked him if this was just a dream or if it really did happen, he told me he couldn’t tell me because i would tell the facility that does the supervised visits, and he wouldn’t be able to see his grandma. He has come home telling me something new (and inappropriate for an 8 year old to be hearing/put in the middle of this situation) every visit. The past 2 visits he has come home telling me there is something I’m not supposed to tell you, and then he tells me and is crying because he doesn’t want to make his grandma mad. He doesn’t want to keep secrets from me and tells me “she told me I’m not supposed to tell you because then things are going to get really bad, and I won’t be able to see her” it is heartbreaking because he loves his grandma and wants to see her, but he is completely unaware of the harm she is doing mentally to him, on top of the safety concerns that come with him being around her outside of a controlled environment. I also recently sold my house and my son and I are moving an hour and 20 minutes away, and she has declared she has found a place to rent where we are moving and will be moving there as well so distance won’t be a factor in the outcome of visitation granted. Mind you, she just found out we are moving ONE WEEK AGO. She had a $100,000 life insurance policy on her son, and used $75,000 of it to buy her house off the sheriff’s auction because it went into foreclosure. Instead of putting any of that money towards her grandson that she is so concerned with seeing, she opened a “gofundme” account for him, begging people to donate to that and raised close to $5,000 for his college fund. Her slogan through this whole legal battle has been that me requesting limited, supervised visitation “isn’t in my grandson’s best interest”. I feel that my rights and wishes as a fit, concerned, protective parent have been completely thrown out the window, overlooked, and set aside throughout this whole situation. I am curious if it ever gets any better? You are lucky, you and your husband are on the same page with your wishes, to my understanding that helps greatly, right?