A parent with the right of first refusal has the right to be given the opportunity to watch the child before the other parent places the child with a third-party childcare provider.
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How to Get Visitations Supervised
To ask for supervised visitation, the custodial parent must provide evidence that this would be in the child’s best interests. So, you should come to court prepared to give evidence and reasoning for your request.
Read More »Creating a Safe Environment for Your Child
While you cannot interfere with custody or parenting time, you can take steps to ensure your child is always in a safe environment when with you or the other parent.
Read More »Where Does Supervised Visitation Take Place?
When a child’s safety or well-being is a concern, sometimes a judge will order a parent’s visitation, or parenting time, be supervised. The conditions under which the supervised visitation takes place may vary depending on the facts and circumstances of the case.
Read More »Can’t Agree on Parenting Time? Here’s Your Next Step
If you are unable to reach an agreement on parenting time with your child’s other parent on your own or in mediation, the court will have to decide for you. The court will require both you and the other parent to submit a proposed parenting plan.
Read More »Parenting Plan Protections
A parenting plan will include the custody designation, a parenting time schedule, and provisions on other issues such as child care providers and procedures for holidays. Parenting plans protect your child by making agreements and arrangements between the parents legally enforceable.
Read More »What Is Reunification?
After a parent and a child have been apart, reconnecting and reforming a strong bond can be difficult. Reunification is a term used to broadly describe the process of reforming a severed parent-child bond.
Read More »New Jersey Parenting Plans: Guidelines for Co-Parenting
New Jersey parenting plans must be filed in divorce or custody cases when the parents cannot agree on all matters. A parenting plan can be used to help co-parents successfully raise their child together.
Read More »Structuring Parenting Time
Parenting time is the residential time you spend with your child. Structuring parenting time carefully is very important because it will have a big impact on your child’s life.
Read More »When Serious Health Or Financial Problems Afflict Either Parent
Parental alienation obviously doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Financial, emotional or personal stresses can lead to bad behavior from everyone involved and create negative feedback loops. For instance, let’s say that you’ve been weakened and fatigued from Type 2 diabetes and blood sugar issues. Thanks to your ill health, you might be prone to make…
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