Child Visitation Guidelines
There is new legislation for Child Visitation Guidelines that each state must adhere to that include a standard visitation schedule, weekends time-sharing, midweek time, differences in parents’ residences, holidays, midterm school breaks, summer vacations, transportation costs, extracurricular activities, siblings and relatives contact, grandparents, special circumstances and emergencies.
These Guidelines are to be used by the District Court's win parties to the custody actions disagree upon a visitation schedule. The advisory guidelines include factors for maximizing the continuity and stability of the life of the child; accommodating to the parents work schedule; a schedule that does not interrupt school hours; encouraging liberal electronic communications; the distance between the two parties and equally shared family and religious holidays.
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Another provision of the law from which these guidelines have been taken is that it allows the court to order blood, urine or saliva testing of the parent or child when deemed necessary to determine a custody arrangement that would be best suited for the child or children.
These Child Visitation Guidelines may be used as the court deems necessary which means they are not mandatory and can be tailored to fit each individual family and their specific needs.
The court's principal ethical concern is that a child has significantly differing chances to have their developmental needs addressed in the child custody rights process. There are several variables to custodial proceedings such as relocation of the custodial parent, remarriage of a custodial parent or the addition another child into the life of the parent and child. All of these incidences or occasions could have some impact on a child's visitation with the noncustodial parent and therefore revisiting the Child Visitation Guidelines either through the courts or a mediator would be necessary.
The visitation guidelines could be suggested by lawyers, custody evaluators, therapists or family courts. Many of these decisions have been based on cultural traditions and beliefs regarding post separation parenting plans and the visitation guidelines that were adopted within jurisdictions, unsubstantiated theory and a strongly held personal values and professional opinions that have resulted in children spending most of their time with one custodial parent and limited time with the nonresidential parent or “visiting” parents. This is then a long-held belief since the 1960s when divorce first became more prevalent.
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As stated before the guidelines are exactly that, guidelines they are not mandatory and could be adjusted to fit any family with additions or subtractions to the guidelines in order to make them custom fit the best interests of the family.
Additionally, there is no such thing as a traditional family. Grandparents are considered primary caregivers; there are homosexual couples that go through the same divorces that heterosexuals go through and all different types of scenarios in which children and custody are the primary concern.
Social science and child development researchers have generated a large body of work over the past three decades that has acknowledged factors linked with resiliency and risk of children after a divorce. This research remains largely untapped and unknown by professionals and parents making these critical decisions about children's living arrangement.
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