Question for any solicitors re: Scottish Law

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Can anyone tell me what rights there are for mothers (me) regarding grandparents visiting rights - do they have any rights or is it purely up to the parent to make the decision on who my DD see's?

thank you in advance.

This should be posted in Legal. There's at least one solicitor (Stidw) who specialises in Scottish law and regularly potters onto the legal section.

Thanks mumblechum1 - kinda new to MN and not too sure were to post.

:)

I'm not a solicitor but i can tell of personal experience. We had problems with my son's grandparents (fathers side) (this was about 6 years ago) and my solicitor told me that they had no rights. However, I think this may have changed as my friend recently got taken to court by the her exP mother for access and grandmother won, and was granted unsupervised access twice a week.

Now that this is here...

In AIBU we need all the gory details so we can bray and argue and call either you and/ or the GP totally inappropriate names it's only right and proper

Hope you get a proper answer in legal

Thanks guys,

Right now I'm just so stressed out - it's coming up to my DH 1st anniversary of his passing - and I feel as though I'm not coping very well (in tears a lot of the time) - all I can say at the moment is the MIL has been vindictive, highly manipulative and is using a shed load of emotion blackmail since my DH passed away and it's not getting any easier - I would be writing from now until dooms day trying to explain the whole sorry saga. Perhaps once I'm feeling a tad better I'll try and get back to this particular post again.

My sincere thanks to you all :) xxx

I m a Scottish solicitor, though family law isnt my area. From memory, grandparents have no automatic rights but they are entitled to raise a court action for contact, which will always be decided on the best interests of the child.Maybe best to post in legal though, in case the law has changed and no-one told me!

Thanks auntmargaret (love the name) - have posted in legal when I eventually found it, will see what comments pop up. Bless you xx

Sorry for your loss. Hope you get through Christmas and the anniversary with happy memories and fun times with your DC.