{"id":31169,"date":"2026-01-26T18:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/?p=31169"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:02:10","slug":"do-grandparents-have-the-right-to-spend-time-with-their-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/do-grandparents-have-the-right-to-spend-time-with-their-grandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Do grandparents have the right to spend time with their grandchildren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese law recognizes the importance of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren and assumes that this relationship is beneficial for the child. For this reason, parents cannot unjustifiably prevent this contact, and grandparents can turn to the courts to assert their rights.<\/p>\n<p>When deciding on the existence of such visitation, the court takes into account several factors, including the child\u2019s wishes, the existing relationship with the grandparents, and the benefits of this contact for the child\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5128\" data-end=\"5211\"><strong>For more information or specialised assistance,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/meeting-scheduling\/\">click here to schedule a meeting with one of our professionals.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese law recognizes the importance of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren and assumes that this relationship is beneficial for the child. For this reason, parents cannot unjustifiably prevent this contact, and grandparents can turn to the courts to assert their rights. When deciding on the existence of such visitation, the court takes into account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria","areas-family-and-inheritance"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FPD-CAPA-S_TITULO.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31171,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions\/31171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}