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Under Texas law, parents deemed fit have a fundamental right to parent any way they want, leaving grandparents very few rights and forcing them to jump through a litany of legal hoops when it comes to protecting the best interests of their grandchildren. "For grandparents to remain in the lives of their grandchildren after a divorce, everyone has to remain on good terms," says family lawyer Amber Liddell Alwais of McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson & Downing in San Antonio. "If you are a grandparent and your divorced son or daughter does not exercise their rights to visit their child, then you will be left out." To secure visitation on their own, grandparents must prove the child's health or emotional well-being will be impaired without the time together, she adds. "There is a lot out of your control. It'll be much easier to just stay close to your children and their former spouse so that they will want to keep you involved." For more information, contact Rhonda Reddick at 800-559-4534 or rhonda@androvett.com.