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Visitation Rights and Struggling for Joint Custody

 

Namely, what are visitation rights? It is a certain schedule in accordance to which a parent that does not have custody of the child has a right to see the child and spend some time together. As a rule, visitation rights are given to parents that are not granted with child custody for a range of reasons. As soon as adults not always are able to realize what visitation rights are, children have no idea about them, either. It is your task to explain them what is happening and how they can participate in the process.

A divorce is a tough time for everyone, and for children it is the toughest. Many children survive their parents’ divorces as a thing that happens because of their bad behavior or because of their being imperfect in any possible way. Children are hurt, they believe that their parents do not love them anymore and separate just to be far away. If you want your children to have a normal healthy idea of your parting, you need to discuss everything with your children and explain that visitation rights will give you a possibility to see each other or the other parent in accordance to a certain schedule.

However, there is one more task for you before everything happens. You should search for an experienced lawyer like Ariano Reppucci or another reliable law firm in your area and discuss your chances of having joint custody instead of just visitation rights. It is quite possible that you will go through a thorough struggle (we do not mean conflicts with your spouse), but in the end you may have much more than just a right to see your child once in a week or several times within a month.

Joint custody is a method of taking care of your child in case you and your ex-spouse are evaluated as equally able and eligible to participate in the life of your child and making crucial decisions regarding such important matters as the child’s education, religion, treatment in case it is required and so on. Though decision making is possible only in case you manage to win full joint physical custody of your child, it is worth fighting for. At least, you can try to win legal custody that does not involve making decisions but allows you to see more of your child and spend more time with him or her.