Legal question re grandparents

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What are my in laws legal rights to DS (10m baby who they've hardly ever seen) when both me and DH wish to have no contact with them or them our child/children? I know they can seek court approval for an informal arrangement but everything online relates to separated parents but we are very much married and in agreement.

They don't have any "rights" at all.

They don’t have any automatic tights. They could go to court but in the absence of a pre-existing relationship and assuming you / your dh don’t have issues (history of substance abuse/ drug addiction/ domestic violence type stuff) they won’t get anywhere.

They have no rights. The fact that you & DH are in agreement simply cements this.

Mumsnet is often wrong about this. They have no rights but a decision maker may decide that your child has a right to a relationship with them. Less likely if there is no enduring relationship in place.

They have none. They can posture all they want. Let them go to court and they will waste their money. There is no relationship to sustain.

There's no automatic rights. The court can intervene in very specific circumstances to ensure contact but as your baby is 10 months old this will not meet them (typically the courts only intervene where for instance grandparents have partly raised the children then eg one parent dies and the remaining parent won't allow reasonable contact, fairly exceptional situations)

Nobody has rights to a child. Some people (parents) have responsibilities.

Grandparents have neither rights nor responsibilities.

Grandparents have no automatic rights to see their grandchildren. As PPs have said, there are very rare occasions where a court might deem it in the child's best interests to have some contact with them, but that's usually if the child has been completely or partially brought up by the grandparents, or the child is in foster care and it's in the child's interests to retain contact with family members who aren't the parents. There is no way a court would intervene to force access to a baby they've barely seen, when both parents have chosen to cut contact with the grandparents and there's no social services involvement.

Absolutely none.

Unless you've got a history of anything that would make you WILDLY unsuitable to care for a child (and the bar for suitability for parenthood is very low), they haven't got a leg to stand on.

None. My exes in-laws tried to take me to court didn’t even get that far.

None.

if they are abusive or threatening let them be and collect evidence

Thank you for your responses. When doing a search online, all seem to be based on situations where parents have split or one has passed away and the grandparents are seeking contact. Or where the child has spent a lot of time with GP. I appreciate the information. I am expecting to receive a letter seeking contact sooner rather than later. Sounds like they'll fall flat on their faces.

No SS involvement or any history of concern. We have a happy and loving home and simply don't want their toxicity pouring into our family anymore.