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Judge Brown’s Standard Visitation, Guidelines, and Restraining Orders

I. VISITATION:

A. Weekend/Midweek Visitation: The visiting parent shall have alternating weekends from Friday at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. until Sunday at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. Each Thursday evening prior to the weekend not having the child/children, the visiting parent shall have the child/children from five-thirty (5:30) p.m. until nine (9:00) p.m. Regular weekends are superseded by the other specific visitation set forth herein; the party not having the specific visitation set forth in B (1), (2), (3), (5) (6) and C shall have the following weekend and the alternate weekend cycle shall recommence.

B. Holiday Visitation:

1. Spring School Break/Easter Weekend: The visiting parent shall have spring school break (Easter weekend) on even-numbered years starting at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the last day of school and ending at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the evening prior to the child/children returning to school. The custodial parent shall have spring school break (Easter weekend) on odd-numbered years starting at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the last day of school and ending at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the evening prior to the child/children returning to school.

2. Thanksgiving Visitation: The visiting parent shall have Thanksgiving vacation on odd-numbered years, and the custodial parent shall have Thanksgiving vacation on even-numbered years. Thanksgiving shall commence at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. on the last day the child/children are in school or would be in school if they were attending school, and shall end at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. on the following Sunday.

3. Christmas Visitation: The custodial parent shall have the child/children during the first half of Christmas break on odd-numbered years starting at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the day school lets out and ending two oโ€™clock (2:00) p.m. Christmas Day and shall have the second half of Christmas break on even-numbered years starting at two oโ€™clock (2:00) p.m. Christmas Day and ending at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the evening prior to school starting back. The visiting parent shall have the same Christmas holiday with the children except it shall be on the alternating years.

4. Motherโ€™s Day/Fatherโ€™s Day: The child/children shall be with the mother on Motherโ€™s Day and with the father on Fatherโ€™s Day from nine oโ€™clock (9:00) a.m. until nine (9:00) p.m. (Regardless of whose weekend upon which it may fall.)

5. Monday/Friday Holidays: As to any other holiday which is celebrated on a Monday or a Friday and which is recognized by the state or the county in which the child/children reside(s) and the school in which the child/children is/are enrolled, while school is in session, the parent having the child/children for that weekend as a normal part of their alternating weekends or selected summer visitations shall have the child/children on the Monday the holiday is celebrated until six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. or starting at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the Thursday night before the Friday the holiday is celebrated.

6. Religious Holidays: If the child/children is/are being raised in a particular faith which has a major religious holiday not otherwise included in the above time frames, the parties shall alternate possession of the child/children from six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the day prior to the event until six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the day after the event or from two (2) hours after the child/children is/are released from school the last day of required school attendance until after the religious holiday at six oโ€™clock (6:00) p.m. the day prior to required school attendance. However, if the child is required to travel and the holiday starts for example at sundown the child may be picked up as soon as school is out as might be reasonably necessary to allow for the child to arrive at the visiting parents home prior to the required commencement time for the holiday.

C. Summer Visitation: The visiting parent shall have one (1) two (2) week period and two (2) one week periods (with at least one [1] week in between each visitation period) of visitation during the summer. He/She shall pick the weeks in writing on or before May 1st of each odd-numbered year and on or before May 15th of each even-numbered year. The custodial parent shall have two (2) full weeks during the summer. He/She shall pick the weeks in writing on or before May 1st of each even numbered year and on or before May 15th of each odd-numbered year. The weeks shall start on a Friday at six (6:00 p.m.) and end on a Friday at six (6:00 p.m.)

D. Birthday Visitation: On each parentโ€™s birthday, the child/children shall be with that parent from eight oโ€™clock (8:00) a.m. until nine oโ€™clock (9:00) p.m. except for school days when the child shall be with that parent from five-thirty (5:30) p.m. until eight-thirty (8:30) p.m. (This does not allow for the child to be taken out of school; neither does this require the parent to take time off from work.) The party not having the child on that childโ€™s birthday shall have three (3) hours on a non-school day and two (2) hours on a school day, independent of any activity of the party with whom the child is placed on that day. This visitation shall be at a reasonable time but not to conflict with any activity the primary party having the child on that day may be having for the child. All the children shall be together on any of their brotherโ€™s/sisterโ€™s birthdays.

  • Summer is defined as the period of time the school district in which the child lives is closed for summer vacation.

II. Other Parental Guidelines, Rights, and Instructions:

A. Telephone/E-mail Contact: Both parents shall have reasonable and at all times private telephone and e-mail contact with the child/children and the child/children shall be allowed to have reasonable private telephone/e-mail contact with either parent. (E-mail is limited to age appropriate use and ability to use a computer and the having of a computer but does not require the purchase of a computer.)

B.ย Important Events: Both parties shall (as soon as is reasonably possible after learning of the event) timely notify the other party of any reasonably important event occurring while the child is in their care, such as, but not limited to baptisms, barmitzvahs, sporting events, dance recitals, school plays, etc. Both parents may attend. When there is any doubt as to whatโ€™s important, the other parent shall be notified.

C.ย Access to Records: Both parents shall have full and complete access to all medical providers, school records, school personnel, coaches, counselors and other professionals involved the childโ€™s/childrenโ€™s lives and shall be allowed to discuss their childโ€™s/childrenโ€™s circumstances and needs with these people. Each party shall inform the other party of the identity of such people and if not otherwise reasonably available, and how to contact such people. If required or requested by the provider school personnel etc. the parent needing to do so shall sign any required form.)

D.ย Medical Emergencies: In a medical emergency, the visiting parent may make appropriate decisions and is hereby granted authority to and shall sign appropriate documents to protect the health and welfare of the visiting child. This is not to undermine the custodianโ€™s legal authority to make appropriate decisions. The visiting parent shall make reasonable efforts to contact the custodian but shall have the authority to act and shall not delay in protecting the child from imminent danger. Each person shall provide and sign such information and forms as required and not otherwise reasonably available to the other parent to allow the fulfillment of this Order. This includes but is not limited to such items as: insurance cards, school schedules, flight schedules, medical appointments, work schedules, prescription medications, releases of information, etc.

E. Medical Emergencies: In a medical emergency, the visiting parent may make appropriate decisions and is hereby granted authority to and shall sign appropriate documents to protect the health and welfare of the visiting child. This is not to undermine the custodianโ€™s legal authority to make appropriate decisions. The visiting parent shall make reasonable efforts to contact the custodian but shall have the authority to act and shall not delay in protecting the child from imminent danger. Each person shall provide and sign such information and forms as required and not otherwise reasonably available to the other parent to allow the fulfillment of this Order. This includes but is not limited to such items as: insurance cards, school schedules, flight schedules, medical appointments, work schedules, prescription medications, releases of information, etc.

F.ย  PICK UP AND RETURN OF CHILDREN: Unless otherwise specified, the visiting parent shall pick up and return the child/children to and from the custodianโ€™s residence for all periods of visitation. The custodian may not thwart/deny visitation by moving away and if the custodian moves greater than fifteen (15) miles from the location where the children lived and were being picked up, the custodian shall have the children at the old location until a court order or written agreement is obtained altering this location. (This is not a ruling as to the right or prohibition of oneโ€™s right to move or relocate.)

G. ALTERING VISITATION. The parents may by agreement alter visitation. However, absent a written agreement to deviate a rebuttable presumption exists that the deviation was not with the agreement of the other party.

III. RESTRAINING ORDERS:

A. All parties are restrained against having any form of physical or verbal confrontation or allowing another to do so in front of the child/children.

B.ย All parties are restrained against excessively consuming or being under the influence of alcohol (defined the same as might apply to driving under the influence), the consumption of any illegal drug or the abuse of any prescription drug or allowing another to do so while the child/children are under his/her care.

C.ย All parties are restrained against the use of profanity or making any derogatory comments about or toward the other party or allowing anyone else to do so in front of the child/children or in any manner whereby the child/children might learn of the same.

D.ย During pending litigation about the children the parties shall not discuss any details about the litigation beyond acknowledging the existence of the same. Further if the litigation is between the parties and involve adult matters not directly relating to the children the parties shall not discuss the litigation with the children. In no case shall the parties unnecessarily involve the children in the litigation. Once an Order is issued the details of it shall not be discussed with the children except to acknowledge it exist and must be complied with. The only exception to this restraining order is when the child/children is/are in counseling or under psychological/psychiatric care and the child/childrenโ€™s provider believes it is in the childโ€™s therapeutic best interest to discuss the same but this may be done only in that limited context absent a written order to the contrary.

E. All parties are restrained from having the child/children on an overnight basis in the presence of an adult party of the opposite sex (* or the same sex if the party or guest is bi-sexual or homosexual) to whom the parties are not related by blood or marriage, or any lover/paramour.ย Neither party shall expose the child/children to conditions which imply a relationship such as a boyfriend or girlfriend, paramour/lover or some type of improper relationship while the party is still married to another person. While the parties are still engaged in marital litigation, the restriction shall be against the mere presence of any alleged paramour or one who under the circumstances may reasonably be construed as a paramour and not merely against overnight visitation.

  • The restraining Order in Section III(E) is preventive in nature and issued to avoid one being able to assert the other adult present, although of the opposite sexual attraction, is only a friend. To do otherwise would make it impossible to protect the child from the inappropriate conduct.

F.ย All parties are required to keep the child/children in a moral and safe environment at all times.

G.ย All parties are required to see that the child/children in their care properly attend school and are not out of school in violation of any educational requirement of this State.

H.ย All parties are required to see that the child/children in their care receive proper medical attention and appropriately take prescribed medications or reasonably necessary medical treatments and to that end shall ensure that the child/children in their care attend any scheduled medical appointments and shall exchange medications which are to be taken, all as might be reasonable and appropriate and in compliance with their religious beliefs, a specific court order or the law.

I. All parties are restrained against conduct detrimental to the child/children of any particular nature relating to the particular needs of a given child/children such as not smoking around a child who is asthmatic.

J. One party shall not schedule nor allow others to schedule elective matters to do with the child/children on or during the other partyโ€™s time.

K.ย At all times the child/children shall be properly supervised and not left with babysitters who are not appropriate in any manner by way of age, conduct, past history or otherwise of which a parent or custodian or visiting party has knowledge, should have knowledge or may with reasonable efforts have gained knowledge.

L.ย All parties are restrained against allowing the child/children to see or be exposed to age in appropriate movies, computer access or websites, games or other such material or forms of entertainment and shall take all reasonable precautions against the same. In no case shall the children be exposed to any X-rated or pornographic material or R-rated movies. The parents may use discretion as to children sixteen (16) and over as to R-rated movies but if either parent objects, the child shall not be exposed to the R-rated movie.

NOTE

This Order applies to custodians and visiting parents alike. A violation of any of this Order could subject the violating party to contempt sanctions which include up to one (1) year in jail to coerce compliance or six (6) months in jail to punish, up to a One Thousand Five Hundred ($1,500.00) Dollar fine and up to three hundred (300) hours community service. One may also be required to pay the attorneyโ€™s fees and costs of the party who brings the action to enforce this Order. Revised June 29, 2006

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