Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee
Grandparent visitation rights
Several years ago, going through my divorce, my (ex)-mother-in-law received the following as visitation rights: one phone call per week to her grandchildren at my home whenever her son was not exercising his visitation rights (which amounted to every other Saturday). I was wondering since the Supreme Court ruling in June stating that grandparents have no visitation rights, has this visitation right of hers been terminated or am I still legally bound by the contract?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Grandparent visitation rights
It's not a contract that is binding you, but the
Order of the court that decided your case.
The Supreme Court decision will likely allow you to get the decision changed so you could end the phone calls, though until the Order is changed, you are required to follow it.
The real question is why are you so bothered by one phone call a week to the kids from their grandmother?
I think getting the Order changed should be relatively easy... though I am wondering why there would even be a need for an order to allow grandparents to talk to grandchildren.
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