I was awarded soul legal custody of my son after he was involved in an abuse case with my ex and her boyfriend. The grandparents of my ex were able to have supervised visitation for 2 hours every other weekend with my son The decree states " The extended family may have supervised visitation every other weekend". Three years later I severed my ex's rights due to neglect and she never even showed to court, and my wife adopted my son four months after that. My wife and I still continue with the supervised visitation with the grandmother and great grandmother. The relationship between us ( the wife and I ) and them ( the grandmother ) is getting rocky. Do I have to keep doing Visitation? Your advice is greatly appreciated.

Hello m:

A court order lasts until a new one is issued.

excon

You made a mistake by continuing the vists after the termination of rights. By doing so, you extended those rights. If you had stopped them they might have gotten them reinstated in court, but you stood a better chance at that time. Now I doubt if a court would uphold your stopping the visitation.

Both of these fellows are correct... sorry excon must spread the rep lol

If you never received a new court order, you must follow the one you have. If it states visitation with the extended family and you stop, they can take you to court for contempt of a court order.

When you child was adopted by your wife and the bio mothers rights terminated... visitation should have stopped. The child is no longer legally binded to that family. They technically have no rights to the child.

While I think you would have a valid case in court, if the child is old enough to show a bonded relationship with the extended family, I would think the judge would want to take into consideration what is best for the child.

But the bio mothers rights have been terminated... that should include the rights of her family as well.