Anonymous wrote:
You seriously did not even read your own link. No grandparent or third party has visitation "rights" in Connecticut. They have a right to petition for visitation. Grandparents and other third parties who can establish that they had a "parent-like" relationship with a child can petition the court for visitation. The fact that the children may have occasionally vacationed with their aunt does not demonstrate that they had a "parent-like" relationship.
You are also completely misreading the mention of grandparent visitation in the case of adoption. There is no right of biological grandparents to petition for visitation for their biological grandchildren who have been adopted. The mention of adoption merely clarifies that grandparents of ADOPTIVE children and grandchildren may petition just as biological grandparents may do. But if a grandparent's child relinquishes their child for adoption, the legal tie is severed from both first parent and first grandparent.
That's not what it says at all. 1)When the parents give the child for adoption and relinquish their parental rights, the biological grandparents have a right to petition the court to have visitation with the adopted child. Whether the adoptive grandparents can see the adopted child is the same as whether a grandparent can visit the child. What the guidelines state is that even if the child is adopted and the bio grandparents want to see the child, they can do that. 2) "the court shall grant the right of visitation with any minor child to any person if the court finds after hearing and by clear and convincing evidence that a parent-like relationship exists between the person and the minor child and denial of visitation would cause real and significant harm."
the link was posted because a poster said that no grandparents, or anyone else can ask the court to have visitation and that was incorrect. Second, this is not the case about a parent against a grandparent. We have not even reached that yet. Right now first there is going to be a trial to determine which court has jurisdiction to decide the final custody disposition. Then there is going to be a second trial deciding who will be the permanent guardian. It can be anyone, as long as that person petitions the court and the judge decides to award custody to that person. Even the nanny has the right to file for full custody. The longer this drags out the more dangerous becomes for Gloria because she will be 86 years old and anything can happen with ones health at that point. I agree with other posters, it is very peculiar why they do not put the sister forward to ask for custody. She is in her 50s and the court would find it more persuasive to award custody to her as she will say I have my mother and the nannies to assist me in taking care of my nieces and nephews.
BTW, I was just watching a case where the judge awarded guardianship of an elderly woman with Alzheimer who is placed at a nursing home, to her daughter in law, the son was dead for more than 3 years, and the daughter was petitioning to get guardianship of her mother. The judge found that the woman's own daughter was not fit to be guardian of the mother, so nobody should presume that the court makes decisions based on how we think everybody else thinks, or how judges think.