What is the name of your state? Arkansas
This is rather an odd situation, at least I think it is.
My youngest daughter and her husband have a precious daughter of 22 months in age. The kids (husband and wife) as all other young couples argue occasionally-and understandably so in todays economic struggles young people are subjected to.
During one argument a couple of weeks ago my son-in-laws parents arrived at the home of the kids and said they'd take the baby (apparently so the kids could finish their argument without the baby there). In the heat of the argument as well, my son-in-laws mother coerced the kids into signing a paper she'd had drawn up by a local attorney giving her custodial rights.
The kids are now scared to do anything such as simply go get the baby in fear that a court might really frown on it. They are now only able to see their infant daughter at the parents discretion. Too, my wife and myself now will see her very little, where before we'd see her nearly on a daily basis.
This little girl is the pride and joy of 4 people (all blood related) that love her immeasurably-and now she is just TAKEN from us-exactly as though she had been kidnapped.
The Grandmother knows that now her husband and herself are somewhat established (much more so than when they began having children) with both working in pretty good jobs, and now can raise a daughter that she KNOWS will turn out to be a regular Princess. Again, this is only my personal opinion.
My question here is; what (within the arena of the law) can these kids and/or my wife and myself do to regain custodial rights for this baby?
The poor kids are so broken hearted they can't effectively work, eat, or anything that young adults in their late teens or eary 20's do-it truly saddens me. And, from what I seen when they got the baby 2 days ago-was an EXTREMELY happy family of 3, and the baby was especially ecstatic.
Those 3 NEED to be re-united, this entire situation is totally unfair to 5 of us.
I would GREATLY appreciate any assistance that anyone might be able to offer.
The kids told me that a judge HAD signed the paper declaring custody to the other Grandmother. Can a municipal court judge sign such an order, or does it have to be a circuit court judge?
Shouldn't the kids have been notified that someone was attempting to gain custody of the baby girl they so dearly love?
Or shouldn't a notification have been published in the newspaper for a 30 day period?
It would seem that somehow, someone would have been required to make the kids aware that such a serious matter concerning them was taking place. But, the way it appears to have happened was the other Grandmother went to an attorney in secrecy, then went to a judge in secrecy. All of these people that do NOT know the baby or the parents are suddenly signing custody papers over to a Grandparent that the attorney or judge know nothing about-if it were that simple, that is scarey-because someone could have easily escaped from a mental institution and could do the exact same thing-how could such a developed country permit such a thing?
Sincerely, A Lonely Grandfather!
This is rather an odd situation, at least I think it is.
My youngest daughter and her husband have a precious daughter of 22 months in age. The kids (husband and wife) as all other young couples argue occasionally-and understandably so in todays economic struggles young people are subjected to.
During one argument a couple of weeks ago my son-in-laws parents arrived at the home of the kids and said they'd take the baby (apparently so the kids could finish their argument without the baby there). In the heat of the argument as well, my son-in-laws mother coerced the kids into signing a paper she'd had drawn up by a local attorney giving her custodial rights.
The kids are now scared to do anything such as simply go get the baby in fear that a court might really frown on it. They are now only able to see their infant daughter at the parents discretion. Too, my wife and myself now will see her very little, where before we'd see her nearly on a daily basis.
This little girl is the pride and joy of 4 people (all blood related) that love her immeasurably-and now she is just TAKEN from us-exactly as though she had been kidnapped.
The Grandmother knows that now her husband and herself are somewhat established (much more so than when they began having children) with both working in pretty good jobs, and now can raise a daughter that she KNOWS will turn out to be a regular Princess. Again, this is only my personal opinion.
My question here is; what (within the arena of the law) can these kids and/or my wife and myself do to regain custodial rights for this baby?
The poor kids are so broken hearted they can't effectively work, eat, or anything that young adults in their late teens or eary 20's do-it truly saddens me. And, from what I seen when they got the baby 2 days ago-was an EXTREMELY happy family of 3, and the baby was especially ecstatic.
Those 3 NEED to be re-united, this entire situation is totally unfair to 5 of us.
I would GREATLY appreciate any assistance that anyone might be able to offer.
The kids told me that a judge HAD signed the paper declaring custody to the other Grandmother. Can a municipal court judge sign such an order, or does it have to be a circuit court judge?
Shouldn't the kids have been notified that someone was attempting to gain custody of the baby girl they so dearly love?
Or shouldn't a notification have been published in the newspaper for a 30 day period?
It would seem that somehow, someone would have been required to make the kids aware that such a serious matter concerning them was taking place. But, the way it appears to have happened was the other Grandmother went to an attorney in secrecy, then went to a judge in secrecy. All of these people that do NOT know the baby or the parents are suddenly signing custody papers over to a Grandparent that the attorney or judge know nothing about-if it were that simple, that is scarey-because someone could have easily escaped from a mental institution and could do the exact same thing-how could such a developed country permit such a thing?
Sincerely, A Lonely Grandfather!
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