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Article: OUTLINING GRANDPARENTS' VISITATION RIGHTS.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Question: I want to see my grandchild. My son has given up his legal right to see his child, and a lawyer told me that my wife and I are no longer grandparents. My son's divorced wife has remarried, and the husband has adopted the baby. This is crazy. How can we get to spend time with the boy?
Answer: Your son no longer has legal rights to see his son because his son has been adopted by his ex-wife's new husband, and is legally his son. But this doesn't mean that you cannot have a relationship with your grandson.
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