National Grandparents Day Is Cause for a Real Celebration
August 31, 2009
(Great Neck, N.Y.) September 13th is a special day for most families as they celebrate National Grandparents Day. It is celebrated the first Sunday after Labor Day in the United States and Canada.
The kids may make hand drawn cards, the parents are thankful for the help and advice the Grandparents provide and the Grandparents enjoy watching their grandchildren grow up and are glad to volunteer to babysit and love to cheer for their grandchildren’s Little League team or watch their first concert performance. For some families, this day takes on an extraordinary meaning because they have not been able to celebrate this day in previous years. Life takes some unusual twists and turns and sometimes grandparents are separated from their grandchildren in ways they never expected to be.
Losing visits with a grandchild can be the result of a bitter divorce where the parent with custody won’t let the parents of the ex-spouse visit with their grandchildren. Sometimes one or both of the parents aren’t able to parent and may even be in jail. There may be drugs or child abuse involved. Someone is taking care of the children and makes the decision that a break from the whole family is better for the child. Sometimes children get lost “in the system” for awhile. Sometimes a child dies, and the spouse moves on and starts a new life with a new spouse and doesn’t see where a grandparent fits in anymore. It can be that a grandparent and parent have a fight and the parent uses the grandchildren as a pawn in their disagreements.
There are a variety of situations that can occur with a grandparent losing visits with their grandchildren. This sometimes causes the grandparents to seek help within the legal system. There are even instances where grandparents seek custody of their grandchildren because the parents are unfit or the children have been abandoned or neglected.
One of the attorneys at our family law firm, John Virdone, has been very active in representing grandparents in New York State. He attends Grandparents Support Group meetings in Nassau County and Suffolk County on his own time as a guest speaker or to answer any legal questions that the Grandparents may have. He has traveled to Albany and also to Washington D.C. to advocate for the rights of children and grandparents. Mr. Virdone has helped many grandparents with these types of cases and has developed an expertise in this area of family law. We also prepare newsletters for grandparents providing lots of interesting information like tips for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, protecting grandchildren on the Internet, and financial information that may be helpful to the grandparents.
The law firm of Wisselman, Harounian and Associates was established in 1976 and is dedicated to serving Long Island, Queens and Metro New York clients and the community on legal matters that arise during the course of raising a family and growing a business. It is the firm’s purpose to help protect clients’ legal interests throughout the many phases of their family lives. This can include handling matrimonial or family law concerns, buying or selling a home, running a business, and estate planning. http://www.lawjaw.com/
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