Legal Question in Family Law in New Jersey
Grandparents rights after adoption
a child's father is divorced from the mother (has complete half custody rights) then dies. The grandparent on the paternal side recieves visitation rights through going through a lawyer. If the mother of the child gets remarried and the man that she marries wants to go for adoption of the child, do the grandparent's rights still remain in tact?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Grandparents rights after adoption
When the father's parental rights are terminated in an adoption by a stepfather the stepfather's name is placed on a revised birth certificate for the child adopted and, legallly,
becomes the child's father. The consequence is this might be that the father's parents lose the status as grandparents. Some research is required.
Gary Moore, Esquire
Hackensack, New Jersey
www.garymooreattorneyatlaw.com
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