Do I have any rights

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Justsomean34

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Jurisdiction
Alabama
Ok my grand son was born 2/28/21 he was premature, his birth date was April 14 2021, so my daughter tested positive for the, so she didn't go to jail, but DHR got involved ,and a safety plan was put in place for the baby ..so they discharged him and the day after he had a pediatrician appt, so when got there the doctor took his temperature and it was 94.6 so the doctor sent us to the hospital there my grand son was there 2 days, and the day of discharge DHR came and got my grandson and put him in foster care...
 
Congratulations on the birth of your precious grandchild.
 
Justsomean34 said:
Ok my grand son was born 2/28/21 he was premature, his birth date was April 14 2021, so my daughter tested positive for the, so she didn't go to jail, but DHR got involved ,and a safety plan was put in place for the baby ..so they discharged him and the day after he had a pediatrician appt, so when got there the doctor took his temperature and it was 94.6 so the doctor sent us to the hospital there my grand son was there 2 days, and the day of discharge DHR came and got my grandson and put him in foster care...
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What specific "rights" are you asking about? Also what did your daughter test positive for? ...you stated : "my daughter tested positive for the"...what is "the"? THC? Was your daughter and grandson living with you when he was taken to the hospital with a dangerously low temp? What was the diagnosis? How old is your daughter? Was the drug use the cause of pre-term delivery?
 
Justsomean34 said:
Ok my grand son was born 2/28/21 he was premature, his birth date was April 14 2021, so my daughter tested positive for the, so she didn't go to jail, but DHR got involved ,and a safety plan was put in place for the baby ..so they discharged him and the day after he had a pediatrician appt, so when got there the doctor took his temperature and it was 94.6 so the doctor sent us to the hospital there my grand son was there 2 days, and the day of discharge DHR came and got my grandson and put him in foster care...
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The state has put your grandchild in foster care because of concerns for his safety. Your daughter and the father have rights in this process and ought to see a family law attorney about what to do to best ensure that they can get their daughter returned to them safely. If your daughter is addicted to drugs that is a problem she'll need to address to get the child returned to her.

Grandparents, on the other hand, do not have any intrinsic right to custody of their grandchildren in these situations. You can let the DHR know you'd like to be considered for providing foster care but the agency is not obligated to do that and in my experience generally child protection agencies will not place an at risk child with close relatives of the parents who created the risk because (1) of risks that the child would then be again exposed to the risks posed by the parents and (2) the grandparents have not been approved as foster care providers, and approval for that takes time.
 
I agree with TM. There's a presumption that the natural parents (either or both) are intrinsically preferred as the custodian for the child. After that, everybody else just falls into the standard of determining what is in the "best interests of the child."
 
In any future posts, please make an effort to use something that resembles proper capitalization and punctuation. Doing so will make it easier for others to read and understand what you write.

Justsomean34 said:
Ok my grand son was born 2/28/21 he was premature, his birth date was April 14 2021
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Ummm...if your grandson was born on February 28, then April 14, 2021 (a date that is three weeks in the future) is most certainly not his birth date. I suspect you meant that was his due date.

Justsomean34 said:
my daughter tested positive for the, so she didn't go to jail
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Tested positive for the what?

Justsomean34 said:
Do I have any rights
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Regarding your grandchild? No. You are, however, free to speak to the DHR case representative about having the child placed with you while your daughter deals with whatever issues caused the child to be removed from her (although the child's father would, in the abstract, be a more appropriate candidate).
 

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