Savannah GA Visitation - Modification Lawyer

Being able to have visitation rights with your children is important to you. Many times there are issues that arise surrounding visitation, and you should be aware of what visitation means, and the duties and responsibilities surrounding it.

Visitation Defined

If you have been awarded visitation rights to your child through the court, this means that you have the right to specific, periodic custody of your child. If you have legal custody of your child, the other parent cannot change or alter in any way the long-term decisions you have made for your child.

If you are involved in a child visitation case in the Savannah Georgia area, then call the our visitation lawyers at (912phone) or fill out the feedback form.

Supervised Visitation

The court may award supervised visitation for a parent, if that parent has abused the child, or any other child in the past. While the court will support that parent’s right to have contact with their child, the court wants to protect the child and make sure there is no further chance that child will be abused.

In a supervised visitation, a trusted friend or relative will be present during the entire visitation to watch over and protect that child’s safety and wellbeing.

Visitation Can Be Denied

If you don’t do something the court told you to do, the court could suspend your visitation rights temporarily. For example, if you are not paying any court ordered child support, the court could deny you visitation with your child until the child support is paid.

The parent who has custody of the child cannot deny you visitation rights, but they can ask the court to change the visitation agreement in some manner. If the custodial parent is denying visitation rights, you can file a petition with the court to force that parent to allow you to have visitation with your child.

If your spouse has denied you visitation rights with your child, don’t stop paying child support. This is a crime, and you could be arrested and put in jail until you pay the child support you owe.

Grandparent Visitation Rights

The courts in Georgia have granted visitation rights to grandparents and step-grandparents even if the parents of your grandchild were never married, and in some cases when the parents of the child were married.

You will have to show the court that being granted visitation rights with your grandchildren is in the best interest of the child.

Brothers and sisters can also petition the court to obtain visitation rights to see their siblings.

Call our experienced Georgia child visitation lawyers at (912 phone), if you need representation in a Georgia child visitation case.