I don't want my mother seeing my kids, does she have "Grandparents Rights" to visitation in Minnesota?

Unfortunately for you, Minnesota does recognize grandparents' rights. The good news is that you have an excellent defense for keeping your kids away from her. It would be to their detriment to expose them to her. Good thing you live quite far away. If she sues, hire a lawyer. I think you will win but, she could make it difficult by saying she will take the meds and then she doesn't. Hang in there.

You sound like a jerk, no wonder she gets violent lmao.

Not justifying your mom but yeah. Who disowns their own mom? Quite harsh, quite vicious.

I don’t like being around my mom in large doses either, but I’d never cut my children off from ever seeing her.

OBVIOUSLY She would be on her good behavior around your children, no sh*t Sherlock. So quit pretending like that’s the reason. You just want to punish her and that’s wrong. You’re also punishing your children

In general they do not unless the parents are in prison or hospital.

You (the mother of the kids) are not dead, the father of the kids is not dead, the two of you are not now or in the past been involved in proceedings about divorce, separation, custody, annulment or paternity, and the kids have not lived with their grandparents for any extensive period. Also, you and your fiancee have not been judged as unfit parents. Given all that, the grandparents have no special rights to see the kids.

Your mother being bipolar and with a history of violence, is just extra icing on the cake. It seems like any decent lawyer would advise your mother not to try for visitation rights, because 99.9% chance she will lose.

*** BUT: if she gets a lawyer for this, then you better get your own lawyer. The 1 chance in a 1000 that she might magically win, becomes 50/50 if you don't. If you think you can't afford a lawyer, here is a link that might help.

Nope. If you choose not to let her see them, that is your choice as parent. A court will not override that choice.

She has no legal rights in regard to seeing your children, if you are that concerned get another order of protection, if she were to go to court you just tell the court about her mental state.

She would have to prove to the judge that the children have developed a strong emotional bond with her and that the children would suffer emotional trauma if they were not allowed contact. That's nearly impossible to prove.

Those laws are on the books due to the senior citizen's political lobby, but they are extremely rare to actually be used.

There are no legal visitation rights for grandparents.

Call a lawyer, and a psychiatrist

no you are the parent and in control of your children Grandparent laws usually are only used when a family has a divorce and one parent does not want the other side to see the kids.