I need some advice
Little back story my brother passed away a few years ago. He has three children. I have actively been apart of their lives since they were born. We spent holidays, every birthday, i would regularly babysit when asked throughout their lives. I also took them on a ten day vacation every summer for the past six years. Even after my brother passed i was regularly seeing the kids. This past November i had plans to pick up the kids and had a medical emergency and was unable to. I wasn’t able to contact sister in law until the next day. And she has not responded at all. I have reached out numerous times via text message and phone call.
So i guess my question is i know there are ‘grandparents rights/visitation’ but how can i, their aunt, request visitation? I feel as it is in the kids best interest that the kids stay connected to their father’s side.
If anymore info is needed i will gladly provide any info needed.

Also not sure if it matters or not but since my brother has passed away she has had more boyfriends than u can begin to count.

EDIT TO ADD
I have always had a relationship with her and maintained a neutral person between her and my brother.

I have made numerous attempts to explain the situation and what happened and she won’t respond.

Hello,

I’m trying to figure out a possible custody arrangement. I travel out of state every other week, sometimes more, sometimes less. I’m looking for a schedule that would give me a full Monday through Thursday block to travel every other week. All the ones I look at do not give me any weekends that are free to take care of stuff around the house. I’ve looked at week on/week off which seems the best but our kids are 7 and 3 and that seems like a long time without the other parent. I’ve tried modifying 2-2-5-5 but that seems to never give me a free weekend. Maybe I’m looking at this wrong?

Let me know if anyone else is in this position and what you do.

Thanks!

So we have had her for about eight months now she got her. She was extremely skinny and she was only about 11 pounds for a two year-old only wearing 18 months old clothes now we finally got her up away. She’s outgrown two teas. She has so much more energy than what she used to like when we first got her she was barely moving, barely finally barely bike and now we can’t stop her from smiling stop her from playing she just has more anybody in the house outside the for dogs.
Like three months after we’ve had her on her bio, Dad Mom started questioning him on why he wasn’t here and why he was asking about her and stuff like that so then he asked to have her every other week and so he started doing that, but since he has been having her every other weekend, she comes home with rashes on her privates. There was one time that she came home with the big black eye and got three different stories on how it happened. He does not pay for anything you got a car seat because it was either he bought himself one or he had to pay us back for when he didn’t want to do either when we got her he didn’t have electricity or running water, and it was the coldest time of the month they live in a pretty crappy trailer to cause it was poorly insulated and we knew that trailer got extremely cold.
My husband And I have been wanting to try to get full custody right over so he has no right to tell us what we can and can’t do with her cause the one that’s been taking through doctors appointments making sure her shots are updated and we also plan on moving, but he’s trying to tell us that he doesn’t want us to move while we have her yet. He hasn’t done anything to prove that he’s doing better for her. He actually just recently had a really good pain job and then quit to go work at a job that his boyfriend thing wanted him go work so he ended up taking like almost a $10 pay cut because of what they wanted him to do.
And we’re just tired of fighting with him about getting us some money so even though we already bought everything she needs that we can recuperate some of that money but he refuses to do that. He refuses to help with anything. My parents have been the ones watching her even though he was supposed to find daycare so we could be able to drop her off at daycare.
We are just both over it and just want to make it where we are her parents instead of him being her parent especially with how she calls us mom and dad and he doesn’t call him anything in the way he acts he is an uncle not the father.