Legal Question in Family Law in Wyoming

Re: Grandparent will not allow contact

There might be a cause of action for "sibling " visitation in IDAHO.

However, The paternal grandparents will not be required to invite your step daughter into their home, life or family group and friends with their grand child. Nor will they be compelled to address your step daughter in any way but that of a person they feel is an interloper in THEIR FAMILY.

As you know, Parents, Guardians, or the person/s responsible for and supporting the child have the right and obligation, to decide who is entitled to visit or contact [their] minor child, absent a state intervention, via courts or welfare agencies. Therefore, these grandparents are entitled to control the influences in their grandchild's life, including limiting or restricting your child's contact with her sibling.

If your stepdaughter persists in "bothering" her sibling's grandparents, either informally or via initiating a court action, the repercussions could be severe. The grands are under no legal obligation to continue to support their grand {could throw her out} or seek placement.... or other mechanism for relieving themselves of a child that refuses to adhere to their values, desires and rules.

Tell your stepdaughter to wait until her sib is much older, and not in need of her grands' care and support.... when she is a self supporting adult.

GOOD LUCK,

PHROSKA L. McALISTER,ESQ