Supervised Child Visitations
Hello, I’m attorney Palmer Johnson. I specialize in family law matters with a particular focus on helping mothers navigate the legal proceedings that affect their families. In today’s video, I’m going to talk a little bit about supervised visitation and what that is and when we might ask a court for it. Supervised visitation is pretty straightforward in that it is a form of visitation with another parent that says that there will be a supervisor. Sometimes that could be as simple as
an agreed upon third party. It might also be a paid professional visitation supervisor. But in order to ask the court for supervised visitation, something is going to have happened that has put the other parent’s ability to parent into question or the safety of the child into question. Things like criminal convictions, domestic violence, protective order against one of the other against the mother.
When to Consider Supervised Visitation
The mother has got a protective order against the father because he was harassing or stalking or threatening or any of these types of situations. Visitation could potentially be suspended if the judge extends the protective order to the minor child or children in the case. These are going to be like really fact specific inquiries. It’s not a tool that should be used to punish another parent for something that the other parent just doesn’t like or false allegations or to alienate another parent. It should be used, I think, in situations where there’s very credible, reasonable evidence to believe that it’s in the best interest of the child that somebody be there to monitor the interactions that the other parent is having.
Seeking Legal Guidance
If you think that you might have a child custody matter that needs supervised visitation, you can contact me at moms.law and we can set up a time to discuss the specifics of your case and what tools are available for you and your family.