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I am not married to my daughter's father, he is in jail at the moment. We (my 16 month old daughter and I) had been seeing her father's dad and step mother somewhat regularly for a few months. Every other week for a few hours at the most. They live in RI. Life has started to get busy, I am the only one providing for my daughter- no support coming in. I have had to say no to two weekends in a row for visits because there was just no time and we were in the middle of a blizzard. The step mother is threatening grandparent rights. She is on probabtion for having a gun illegally in her home and threatening to use it against her brother. I am uncomfortable with her, and that is why when there are visits, I am always there, they are never left alone with her. Will she be able to gain visitiation to my daughter? I just am not sure how it works when the grandparent threatening is not the biological grandparent. Do I need to retain an attorney or do I wait and see if this is just what I am thinking it is, a threat to get me to come to RI for a visit. I honestly think she is trying to scare me (it is somewhat working as I am posting here!) into visiting. Sorry if this is all over the place. I have don't have to let them see her, I do it because I am big into family and want my daughter to have relationships with them- but not if they threaten me.
I am not married to my daughter's father, he is in jail at the moment. We (my 16 month old daughter and I) had been seeing her father's dad and step mother somewhat regularly for a few months. Every other week for a few hours at the most. They live in RI. Life has started to get busy, I am the only one providing for my daughter- no support coming in. I have had to say no to two weekends in a row for visits because there was just no time and we were in the middle of a blizzard. The step mother is threatening grandparent rights. She is on probabtion for having a gun illegally in her home and threatening to use it against her brother. I am uncomfortable with her, and that is why when there are visits, I am always there, they are never left alone with her. Will she be able to gain visitiation to my daughter? I just am not sure how it works when the grandparent threatening is not the biological grandparent. Do I need to retain an attorney or do I wait and see if this is just what I am thinking it is, a threat to get me to come to RI for a visit. I honestly think she is trying to scare me (it is somewhat working as I am posting here!) into visiting. Sorry if this is all over the place. I have don't have to let them see her, I do it because I am big into family and want my daughter to have relationships with them- but not if they threaten me.