SmoothOperator
Sadly what connects all these puzzles is that ther
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Above BBM.. Unfortunately here in Tennessee as of the time of my divorce proceedings(4 excruciatingly long years 2000-2004).. As of that time I can attest that IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE GRANDPARENTS HAVE NO RIGHTS TO NOT ONLY CUSTODY, BUT NO RIGHTS TO EVEN VISITATION AS WELL.. We found this out first hand as my mother, therefor my only son's maternal grandmother(and coincidentally my mother's ONLY grandchild) throughout our long and purposefully drawn out divorce proceedings by my ex.. During this time my mom, as the grandmother hired her own atty about 1 yr into the proceedings(extremely highly regarded family law atty) upon seeing the craziness that my ex was stooping to in attempts to hurt me for leaving him by using our only son as a pawn with which to inflict the most pain and heartache for me(sadly my case is not unusual at all but rather has become the "norm" for which some parents exact their revenge on their soon to be ex spouse for daring to leave them)..
Extremely long story short is that unfortunately things got really ugly and dangerous with threats made on me to the point that my mom was actually having to look at avenues with her atty for what would be her rights, as the maternal grandmother should I somehow no longer be in the picture at all(iow deceased).. This is exactly how we found out that in the state of Tennessee a grandparent has zero rights to custody.. And as hard as some may find it to believe that they have zero rights even to having a visitation schedule with their grandchild.. If the father is the primary custodial parent(as would have been the case had I become deceased and his found to have no responsibility in my death).. And put it this way my moms fear was that with his strong and deep LE ties, she feared that he could possibly get away with something.. And with dad having primary custody then it is at his sole discretion as to when or how or even IF he "chooses" to "allow" the grandparent to see and/or havie any access to the child.. Grandparents do not even have the right to have phone access to the child.. Again the full discretion is with the primary custodial parent, period..
So, I can personally attest as to when I was involved and went through divorce proceedings here in the state of Tennessee that at that time GRANDPARENTS HAD NO RIGHTS WHATSOEVER..
