Grandparents Rights
Families can sometimes change course, and when something major, such as a divorce or the death of a parent, occurs, a grandparent’s relationship with their grandchildren can be affected. When the residential custodial parent or surviving parent tries to limit the amount of time the kids spend with their grandparents, it may be necessary to hire an attorney to file a petition with the Court to get the grandparents' rights of access to visit your grandchildren again. The family law attorneys at Juris Law & Mediation have successfully helped grandparents in Kansas secure visitation with their grandchildren despite their parents' or guardians' objections.
Under Kansas law, grandparents have the legal right to ask the Court to order visitation with their grandchildren. If grandparents can successfully prove that they have or had a substantial grandparent-grandchild relationship and that visitation is in the children's best interest, a court may allow visits.
The grandparent seeking visitation has the burden of proving to the judge that the relationship exists and that visitation is in the child’s best interests, considering the child's health, safety, and general welfare.
Grandparents do not need to be related to a grandchild by bloodline to ask for grandparents' rights visitation, but must be a legal parent of one of the child’s parents.
There is also a significant financial aspect to asking the court for grandparent rights visitation because the grandparent(s) will be held responsible for their own attorneys’ fees, the attorneys’ fees of the parents, the cost of a Guardian ad litem if the Court orders one to represent the interest of the children, and all the costs associated with the proceeding - unless the judge decides it would be unfair based on the parents’ behavior. Typically speaking, these attorneys’ fees are almost always ordered to be paid by the grandparents, so these cases can be costly both financially and emotionally.
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