Do Grandparents Have Legal Visitation or Custody Rights in New Jersey?
In a perfect world, grandparents would not need to assert their legal right to visitation or custody of their grandchildren. In a perfect world, all parents and their adult children would get along, and divorce would never happen. However, we don’t live in a perfect world. The question of what legal rights grandparents may have with regard to their grandchildren is a changing area of family law. In every case where grandparents seek a visitation or custody order, judges make individual rulings based on the facts of that particular family’s circumstances.
