My husband and I have had our lil princess (tech great neice) who is 16 months for a year now. TPR is to occur on Tuesday. Paternal grandmother had her for 2 days after removal, and she was removed from her care by CPS because it was not a safe place. Well since then she has NEVER called to check on baby, NEVER sent cards or gifts, NEVER contacted CPS showing any intrest. Now she wants to "invoke her grandparents rights" to try for custody or at least visitation. GAL said that he is pushing for that NOT to happen because its no were near the best interest of the child. I dont worry about her getting custody, she has warrants out for her arrest, has alot of medical problems, and we have had baby for a year. But the thing that concerns me if the court does allow her visitation, she lives 8 hours away and bio-dad and mom live with her, not to mention my little girl does NOT know this women. So question is...if visitation granted will they allow g-ma to take our lil girl all that way with her? And how often would they let these visits occur? Im not a bad person and would not mind EITHER of bio's parents family having contact...if they had shown interest in the beginning. My husband is bio-dads uncle, and so the part of the family that he is related to has see baby ALOT, including bio-dads DAD and Step-mom, they are a constant part of her life. As well as both of bio-dads siblings. Bio-moms family shown NO interest with us or CPS.
Any advise would be great...btw we are in Texas!
