Understanding Supervised Visitation
I’m Tulsa Divorce Attorney Palmer Johnson. Welcome to my video series where I answer frequently asked questions I get from my family law clients. Today’s question is, what is supervised visitation? Supervised visitation is visitation that is supervised, meaning some third party, either a professional supervisor, which there are actually people who do that for a living, and they generate reports and they monitor the visitation between the parent that’s being supervised and the minor child.
There could be a number of reasons why a case would have supervised visitation. If there’s been domestic violence between the parents, and even if it’s been, especially if it’s been in the presence of the children, there could be a protective order in place. There could be a pending criminal matter related to that domestic violence in a criminal case that’s also going on.
Reasons for Supervised Visitation
So there’s a general concern about the appropriateness and ability of one parent’s impulse control when it comes to violence. So there would be enough concern that you could ask the court for supervised visitation. Another reason you might ask for supervised visitation would be an active drug user or somebody that’s in the process of seeking treatment or recovery for drug use, alcohol use.
Essentially anything that would call into question your ability to parent would be a reason that you would ask the court for that relief. There generally needs to be some safety concern and some benefit to the reports because that’s very useful in being able to go back and look at, well, what kind of conversations is this parent having age-appropriate conversations? Are they talking about the case? Are they doing things that make the child upset?
Seeking Legal Advice
All of these could be factors in what the final order could end up being and what kind of visitation a parent might end up with. If you have a divorce case that potentially involves a difficult situation like I’ve described, you can contact me at moms.law to schedule a low-cost personal consultation.
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