Third-Party Custody and Grandparent Visitation

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Fact Sheets

Grandparents and Visitation
Read this in: English, Spanish / Español, Hmong / Hmoob, Somali / Soomaali
Third-Party Custody
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Other Resources

Do-It-Yourself Forms

Child Custody and Parenting Time - Minnesota Court Forms and Information
Welcome! The Minnesota Courts have forms for requesting or changing child custody or parenting time, and for responding to a motion for custody or parenting time.
Source: Minnesota Courts
Service of Process - Minnesota Court Forms and Information
When you start a court case, or are already involved in a court case, you are generally required to give the other party (the other side) to the case copies of any papers you are…
Source: Minnesota Courts

Helpful Websites

Legal Steps: Kinship Caregivers Manual
Author: State Support

Overview of laws and steps for third-party custody in Minnesota.

Go to the website: Legal Steps: Kinship Caregivers Manual
Kinship Caregivers and the Child Welfare System
Author: Child Welfare Information Gateway
Information to help kinship caregivers—including grandparents,aunts and uncles, other relatives, and family friends caring for children—work effectively with
the child welfare system
Go to the website: Kinship Caregivers and the Child Welfare System - Child Welfare Information Gateway
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