Ok ok, so she may not be evil but she sure is trying to let all hell break lose! My son's grandmother, from his father's side, wants to sue me for grandparent rights. Now I am not married to my son's father so I don't think she has much ground to begin with. She is a very unstable woman. She has tried to kill herself numerous times and has had to be sent to a psych ward because of it at least once that I know of for sure. Does anyone know what kind of rights she may have or any grounds at all? Any help is much appreciated!

I know that if she files for it, she could possibly get rights. But it will have to go to court. at the least and i think the most it will be one visit a month for a couple hours and i thnk WITH YOU! which is also very important. If and i am sure it will go to court, have a lawyer and present the findings of suicidal and being in a phsyc ward. Depending on the judge, i am not sure.
That would be a thing to ask a lawyer, but i know if grandparents file for rights, they can possibly get it! Sorry.

The first thing you do is write down all incidents she has had. Being put in the hospital, flipping out on you, putting the child in danger. Try your hardest to remember every little thing and the dates. This will help you if you have to go to court.

Grandparents do have rights but not crazy ones.

I agree with HRHLeague you must start preparing yourself just in case she does go through witht he threat - write down ever incident fom the past, present and as it happens in the future, What about your ex is he about, what is his stance on his mother having rights and write down anything that he has divulged about his mothers behaviour - the courts may give her supervised visitation but the good news is she will probably refuse this visitations and do with out or she will attend but give up - control freaks who behave or ar ill like her usually give up on something if they don't get their own way - I would not worry to much if I were you no court is going to take the responsability of letting her have unsupervised visitation considering she has a history of 'unstable behaviour'.

Good luck though and keep that diary