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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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repository: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10256/27163 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10256/27163 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Avis i néts Grandparents and grandchildren Dret de família Domestic relations |
| Summary: | 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 |
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