I live in California and I am in the process of adopting my 4yr old granddaughter which I am the guardian for right now. Her mother is alive and is consenting to the adoption and does not want the child having access to the grandfather at this time. The parternal grandfather has court ordered visitation that is attached to the guardianship case but that visitation is not going well and is affecting her behavior and she doesn't want to go. Will this visitation order under the Guardianship be removed and can he petition the court for new visitation under the adoption? I asked that this be a closed adoption with no contact to outside family.

Since your asking for a in family adoption how do you expect to accomplish a no contact closed adoption? Also if the grandfather has court ordered visitation then it may be hard to terminate it since it is prexisting. Where is the child's father in all of this and has he given consent to the adoption also?

You do realize that the child's father has to consent to the adoption, right?

You are NOT likely to end the pre-existing visitation with this adoption.

And a CLOSED adoption means that the adoptee has no contact with ANY of his or her biological family--and in fact, the adoptive family and biological family have no information on each other. Since you ARE family, you can't have a closed adoption. Period.

I would consult an attorney, if I were you. What you are proposing sounds like you are just trying to find a way around the visitation instead of actually wanting a legal adoption terminating the biological parents' rights.