I live in Massachusetts. I have a court order for visitation every other weekend with my grandchildren. It was granted Jan 2007. In Oct 2007 I stopped picking them up. This was after the guardians called the police to my house while the children were there, filed with dss against my daughter-in-law, and took me back to court to "suspend" my visitation. Basically, nothing happened but the guardians are looking at everything to boot me, my son, daughter-in-law, and anyone else in my family out of the children's lives. The judge at that time continued the visitation order with some slight modifications. Every time I have gone to pick up the children there have been terse words from the guardians. Every email is filled with horrible accusations of things that have not happened and how horrible I am. Oh, and how wonderful they are! Phone calls to speak to the children were no different. Now they do not even answer the phone when I call.
I began asking about a month and a half ago to have my grandchildren for a day (to start with). The guardians refused saying that now they had permanent guardianship and the court order for visitation was terminated. I reread the court orders and in no way was the visitation tied to the temporary or permanent guardianship. I was never brought into court to have the visitation order vacated either.
My daugther-in-law spoke to a legal friend of hers who said that the guardians can probably get away with this because of all of the time loss (about a year). She said I should and still can file contempt but the judge probably won't find it, the judge will just re-evaluate the situation and decide whether or not I can still see the kids as previously ordered. The lawyer friend also said to be careful because the guardians might let me take the kids but then may claim kidnapping ???
What is all of you-alls take on this? What should I do?
I began asking about a month and a half ago to have my grandchildren for a day (to start with). The guardians refused saying that now they had permanent guardianship and the court order for visitation was terminated. I reread the court orders and in no way was the visitation tied to the temporary or permanent guardianship. I was never brought into court to have the visitation order vacated either.
My daugther-in-law spoke to a legal friend of hers who said that the guardians can probably get away with this because of all of the time loss (about a year). She said I should and still can file contempt but the judge probably won't find it, the judge will just re-evaluate the situation and decide whether or not I can still see the kids as previously ordered. The lawyer friend also said to be careful because the guardians might let me take the kids but then may claim kidnapping ???
What is all of you-alls take on this? What should I do?