What Is the Difference Between Legal Custody and Permanent Custody?
In most cases, this answer is going to be no. In cases where the parents voluntarily give up custody, the parents fully expect to regain custody once they get through their hardship.
When is permanent custody of a child is necessary?
First, parental custody would be detrimental because of the violent nature of the father’s crime coupled with his use of alcohol. The father had strangled the mother after drinking heavily and the court was concerned that the child could be harmed if the father continued his drinking habit.
Can a relative get custody of a child?
1. Can grandparents or other relatives get custody of grandchildren without the parents’ consent? They can—when the court finds that awarding custody to the parent or parents would be detrimental to the child, and that awarding custody to a non-parent would be in the child’s best interests.
