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Originally Posted by 33girl
Whoa, wait, let me get this straight. You had a custody case where two parents were fighting over custody of a child, let's call him Buddy. The woman who called you is Buddy's GRANDMOTHER?!?!
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It's definitely not unusual for grandparents to be involved in their kids' custody cases. Keep in mind, if lawyers and judges are involved in your divorce, it's probably a pretty high conflict divorce. Over-involved grandparents are a major cause of high conflict divorce. Also, those over-involved grandparents are often the folks paying the attorney fees as older folks tend to be in better financial positions than their children.
It's not even unusual for grandparents to try and obtain custody for themselves over a grandchild, using their own still-attached children as pawns in a game over control.
Heli-parenting is a huge problem in our culture. The fact that I see more colleges, businesses, etc., looking to accommodate this behavior rather than correcting it is pretty troubling.