What is a adoption open grandparents rights?

Question

What is a adoption open grandparents rights?

Answer 1

grandparents can adopt kids if a good reason is present

Answer 2

Open adoption agreements are not legally binding with a birth parent, let alone a grandparent.

Answer 3

do you mean what are the grandparents rights with open adoption?  Grandparents don't have much rights in most states and once a child is put up for adoption they have no rights.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what you are asking so let me share a couple of things.

In some states grandparents have rights to grandchildren.  Perhaps you are asking this after reading about Britney Spears mother suing for grandparent rights.  California is one state in which grandparents have rights under certain circumstances.  It protects the right of the petitioning grandparent to visit with the child(ren) and maintain a relationship with them similar to that of divorced parents but without as much right as a parent would be granted.

If you are referring to open adoption the biological grandparents do not have any legal rights to the biological grandchild that has been adopted.  Open adoption agreements in an overwhelming majority of states are not legally binding so even if an agreement were made it could not be legally enforced.  I think that will probably change in the near future as this is an area of adoption reform that is getting a lot of attention and people from across the adoption triad are putting efforts into changing it.

Answer 5

If you put up a child for adoption and the adoptive family agrees to open grand parenting, that means that the biological grandparents can have contact with the child. The level is agreed on by both parties prior to the adoption. It can be Christmas pictures once a year or regular visit it all depends on what everyone is comfortable with.

Answer 6

In N.H. there are supposed to be grandparent's rights, but CPS does not recognize them and neither do the family court's. Why would they when they receive more incentive money when the child is placed in fostercare instead of with relative's. They'll pull out every trick in the book just to make sure they get their almighty dollar. They even lie to the Judge and tell him there were no relative's willing to take the child.