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Grandparents rights?

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AMummyFromNotts · 27/03/2012 13:58

Right i'm not going in the in and outs.
Basically my ex partners parents have been making threat about taking this to court etc.
The breakdown of realtionship was caused by them.
My child is still very young and doesn't have a bond with neither of his grandparents.
For reasons and advise from police i was told not to meet any of my ex partner family members.All of which i explained to them anyways.
Oh and the father isn't name on the birth cert so they cannot even prove they are the grandparents anyways as it stands.(that nothing to do with trying to prevent them or the father access that just something that has happened for sperate reasons. )

Anyways his parents according to them have some legal family protection insurance and will be using this to fund there case .so we speak.
Is there even any kind of insurance that covers such stuff?I've been browsing the net and the kind of stuff these insurance things cover are legal costs for like work dissmal issues, injury claims and neighbour disputes all of which i don't think would be a straight foward process in claiming.
Anyways i know grandparents now have the right to apply to the courts for access. (Correct me if i am wrong)
I know if it was taken anywhere it will be taken through mediation first obviously .
What are there chances of getting anything ?
Or what circumstances must they meet to qualify
Basically anything you know on grandparents rights in a deeper form.
thank you for reading..
I would be here all day explaining what has happened ,which i don't really think would change the outcome of anything in these sort of cases as it is always is about the child best interests.
As it stands i do not believe it is important for grandparents, to have a bond with there grandchildren unless they was already involved in the child life.

The breakdown of our realtionship had alot of interferences from his family etc so as you can imagine is hasn't been an aimable one, we broke up not long before the birth of our child anyways so they only ever seen my child once for about 30mins when she was a few days old.

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Collaborate · 27/03/2012 14:07

The grandparents don't have a right to apply to court for contact, but permission is nearly always granted. That doesn't mean to say that they have a strong claim though.

howmuchlonger · 27/03/2012 17:28

I looked into the legal cover on house insurance. It does cover you for sone legal expenses but not family law

NotaDisneyMum · 27/03/2012 22:06

Grandparents do not have the automatic right to apply for a Section 8 contact order.

In order to apply, they have to seek permission from the Court, which will decide if it is in the best interest of the child for an application for a contact order to be considered.
If they are granted permission to apply, the application will then proceed as any other Contact Order application would - mediation, CAFCASS and finally, if no agreement is reached, a decision from the court.

You are right - the court will consider the child's best interests - will your DC benefit from a relationship with their grandparents; and that is considered separately from the relationship with their NRP parent.

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