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Interesting question about godparents...
I just read something that confused me. It said that the godparents that you have at the baptism are not necessarily the ones who will raise your child in the event of an accident.
Maybe it's just me but I thought they were the same people??
Anybody have godparents for their children and other people that will raise their children specified in their will?? 
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Posted 11/1/07 9:49 AM  |
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
My Godparents for my DD are my sis and bro.. so they wont be able to raise her if God Forbid something happend b/c they dont live together. They are just responsible to make sure she continues her religion education.
I just spoke with my DH this past week about sitting down and finding out how we go about putting in will who we want to take care of DD if we passed.
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| Posted 11/1/07 9:55 AM |
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
My DH and I had this discussion the other day. He thought that making a person a godparent meant they would take care of them in the event something happened to both of us...but that is not necessarily the case. A godparent has no legal rights to the child - it's really a spiritual mentor for the child.
We will likely have different people specified in our will (we haven't done this yet  ) as DD's godmother lives in TX. Her godfather is DH's brother and lives here in NY, but wouldn't be the best equipped to take on another child should something happen...
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| Posted 11/1/07 9:57 AM |
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
guardians and godparents are not the same thing. In our case, Ella's godmother is also named her guardian, but her godfather is not.
A godparent is responsible for the religious upbringing of the child (in theory anyway) - they have absolutely no legal claim to guardianship should something happen to the parents.
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| Posted 11/1/07 10:01 AM |
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LuvMyBoys
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| Posted 11/1/07 10:06 AM |
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nferrandi
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
We don't really have godparents, we didn't have a baptism or anything, but it's implied that it's my sister and his brother. Neither of them will be DS's guardian.
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| Posted 11/1/07 10:13 AM |
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
I'm so glad I asked this question, I always just assumed they were the same people I guess. Thank you!!
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| Posted 11/1/07 10:18 AM |
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Mommy2Boys
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
He thought that making a person a godparent meant they would take care of them in the event something happened to both of us
I think this was the "old school" way of doing it years ago and I guess some people still follow this. In our case, my cousin (who is like my sister) is DS's godmother and DH's brother is his godfather so we would have to decide who would take the baby in case something ever happened to us.
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Tine73
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
Our Godparents are going to be different than the guardians. Our Godmother is my 23 year old cousin and our Godfather is my 45 yr old BIL. We are asking our good friends to be guardians.
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| Posted 11/1/07 10:35 AM |
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Re: Interesting question about godparents...
Posted by FrankiesGirl107
My DH and I had this discussion the other day. He thought that making a person a godparent meant they would take care of them in the event something happened to both of us...but that is not necessarily the case. A godparent has no legal rights to the child - it's really a spiritual mentor for the child.
We will likely have different people specified in our will (we haven't done this yet ) as DD's godmother lives in TX. Her godfather is DH's brother and lives here in NY, but wouldn't be the best equipped to take on another child should something happen...
That's not always true. There have been a couple of cases where the godparents (who were not named in the Will) were granted custody of the children after the parent's passing. I saw a 20/20 or Dateline special about it a while back.
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| Posted 11/1/07 10:46 AM |
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