Enhanced Contact Rights for Grandparents? A Critical View from Spanish and Catalan Laws

This article examines how case law deals with claims of grandparents who seek contact with their grandchildren against the will of one or both parents, and the scope given to their rights. The resulting state of the law is assessed taking into account the interests of all the parties involved (paren...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Ribot Igualada, Jordi
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/27163
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/27163
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Avis i néts
Grandparents and grandchildren
Dret de família
Domestic relations
Descrição
Resumo:This article examines how case law deals with claims of grandparents who seek contact with their grandchildren against the will of one or both parents, and the scope given to their rights. The resulting state of the law is assessed taking into account the interests of all the parties involved (parents, grandparents, and grandchildren). The experience of more than twenty years of application of the specific provisions concerning grandparents' contact rights sheds light on the impact of giving grandparents stronger legal rights. It also prompts the question of whether this legislative choice might have brought about useless and potentially harmful litigation