Raleigh, NC: Grand parent’s association with their grand children is very special. This relationship faces blockages as one or both the parents would not want the grand parents to get legally involved with their children. The North Carolina law also restricts intervention by the grand parents in case ‘intact family’ exists. Gailor, Wallis & Hunt, the North Carolina family law firm explains that if the grand parents want to retain the right of visitation in divorce cases they would have to get legally involved or risk losing the rights to visit their grand children.
North Carolina family attorneys say that law gives the rights to the grand parents to intervene before the final decision of child custody is made by the judge. But once, the court decides on the child custody and during the time the child will spend with each parent, no one, not even grand parents are allowed to intervene.
Defining the ‘Intact family’ the divorce lawyers in North Carolina explain that, “Under the law, single-parent homes are considered as “intact” as homes in which the parents live together and make decisions about whom their child may see.”
Grand parent may intervene only in case when the parents request for modification in the custodial arrangements, the grand parent has the right to intervene and file for visitation rights and the court may grant the request only after assessing that the “substantial relationship’ exists between the grand parent and the child.
Gailor Wallis & Hunt, the family law firm in North Carolina warrants grand parents that they must seek professional legal help before intervening and filing for the visitation rights for review as the circumstances and facts of each individual grand parent may differ and whether the grand parent is entitled to take any action for the visitation rights of the grandchild.
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