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Hi,
hoping for some advice in quite a complicated topic. Keep with me for the back story.
I am a father of 2 children, ages 3 and 6. My wife, their mother, passed way and I became a single parent widower.
I was very lucky and met someone new, a widow with a similar story, who had no children but was having ivf. The sperm doner being her late partner. Luckily on the 3rd and final chance she fell pregnant and our daughter is due in a couple of months.
We have an intention to adopt each other’s children to make us formally a family from a legal point of view.
The question is around my rights and grandparents rights.
For the children that i’m bringing to the family we made advance queries with the local council today regarding future adoption. One thing they said which I hadn’t thought of is around grandparents rights. While it will turn out ok, one thing that is part of the process is my late wife’s surviving parent losing his legal status as grandparent, which is a clinical horrible bit.
My other half’s late partner didn’t have a great relationship with his parents, and for a while after his passing, they caused my partner unnecessary problems.
We 100% intend to put the new baby’s biological father’s name on the birth certificate.
We 100% intend to allow the baby’s biological grandparents to have access to their granddaughter.
What we would like to avoid is them to have legal rights that would then need to be removed at a later date as part of the adoption process. It’s a step that could cause new friction that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
We know that (to be clinical) sperm donors don’t have rights, but I believe that fathers with their name in a birth certificate, as well as their families, do.
So I want to know really, will the biological grandparents have rights by default, or is there anything that can be done or happens by default to avoid this?
thanks
B
hoping for some advice in quite a complicated topic. Keep with me for the back story.
I am a father of 2 children, ages 3 and 6. My wife, their mother, passed way and I became a single parent widower.
I was very lucky and met someone new, a widow with a similar story, who had no children but was having ivf. The sperm doner being her late partner. Luckily on the 3rd and final chance she fell pregnant and our daughter is due in a couple of months.
We have an intention to adopt each other’s children to make us formally a family from a legal point of view.
The question is around my rights and grandparents rights.
For the children that i’m bringing to the family we made advance queries with the local council today regarding future adoption. One thing they said which I hadn’t thought of is around grandparents rights. While it will turn out ok, one thing that is part of the process is my late wife’s surviving parent losing his legal status as grandparent, which is a clinical horrible bit.
My other half’s late partner didn’t have a great relationship with his parents, and for a while after his passing, they caused my partner unnecessary problems.
We 100% intend to put the new baby’s biological father’s name on the birth certificate.
We 100% intend to allow the baby’s biological grandparents to have access to their granddaughter.
What we would like to avoid is them to have legal rights that would then need to be removed at a later date as part of the adoption process. It’s a step that could cause new friction that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
We know that (to be clinical) sperm donors don’t have rights, but I believe that fathers with their name in a birth certificate, as well as their families, do.
So I want to know really, will the biological grandparents have rights by default, or is there anything that can be done or happens by default to avoid this?
thanks
B
