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by the attorneys of Cordell & Cordell, P.C.

Not every parent is granted primary physical custody or determines that retaining physical custody is in their child’s best interest.  If you are not awarded physical custody or determine that it is in your child’s best interest that he or she should live with their mother the majority of time, there are still issues you need to consider in setting your visitation time with your child.  Remember you want to maximize the time you do spend with your child.

First, I have had numerous clients tell me that the parties have agreed to just decide as they go as to the schedule. Dad will see the child whenever he likes.  Or mom will let me see him on my off days.  The parties are getting along now and they do not think scheduling visitation will be a problem so there is no need for a schedule.  I always advise them that a  “fall-back” schedule is needed. 

Question:

Question:

Is it legal for my fiancé’s parents and mother in law to deny him his son's phone number and visitation rights? Right now he is not allowed to call his son or to take him out alone. These are the rules of the grandparents, not of the court. There is no court ruling him to be an unfit parent or anything else for that matter. The child just lives with the grandmother in New York while the father is in Maine.