The normal Child Visitation that awarded to the noncustodial parent is typically every other weekend and one night during the week for the weekend that the noncustodial parent does not have the child.  Typically, each parent gets 2 weeks of uninterrupted time with the child during the summer and alternate holidays. If you are involved in a divorce it is important for you to know that visitation is important to your child.  Withholding visitations should never be used as a weapon and the noncustodial parent should always exercise his visitations with the child.  Not only is not abiding by a child visitation schedule hurtful to the child, the noncomplying party could face civil contempt charges or an alteration of the child visitation schedule.

 The parties are not required to have a child visitation schedule.  if the parties cooperate, a flexible or changing parent schedule if perfectly fine.  If a parent fails to allow visitation the child may see the custodial parent as being unfair to the other parent.  Denying visitation often backfires against parents in their relationships with their own children.  Fathers that do not get visitation pay child support poorly.  Children that see their fathers divorcing, not visiting, and not paying child support are more likely to become fathers and mothers that abandon children.  Such children are less likely to have careers, go to college, have successful marriages, and are more likely to become delinquent.  These cycles repeat in families often for generations.   

In some extreme cases child visitation simply cannot occur normally.  It may be that a case of abuse exists or that a parent is in prison or there may be other very good reasons for putting reasonable limits upon visitation and when and how it occurs.  However,  it is rare where a child shouldn't have any visitation with the parent. Visitation is always in the child's best interest.   Even if a parent is in prison or is in a mental institution the child should know that they have a parent and see that parent to understand that they have roots.  If the child has a poor parent,  they can come to understand that their parent is mentally ill or that their parent has poor mental programming that keeps their parent from being all that the parent needs to be.  The past does not have to be the future and seeing that parent means that the child can then make a choice to be better than their parents were.  Robbing a child of all visitation is abuse itself.  

The Divorce Manual fully discusses the Kentucky child visitation.   Download your free copy.  This is an advertisement for the Divorce Manual.  This is not legal advice it is for informational purposes only.

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