Q: In November it will be 3 years since we adopted our grandchild. Both birth parents voluntarily terminated their rights.
The other set of grandparents are now saying they are going for visitation. They had very little contact with grandchild before the adoption by their own child's choice. They said if they don't succeed in getting visitation, they will have their daughter claim we forced her to consent to the adoption. We got special permission for both birth parents to be in the courtroom for the adoption finalization hearing because I had a feeling something like this would happen due to the history of her family. She had every opportunity to contest it if she wanted to. My question is, do they have any kind of a case? If they do, even after almost 3 years?
A: When a parent's rights are terminated so are those stemming from the parental relationship. So the grandparents, aunts and uncles are all no longer legally related to the child either.
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