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Family Law: Visitation
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Legal Education
Allowing Your Husband to Visit Your Child
- Information sheet from Southeastern Ohio Legal Services. What do you do if you are separated from your husband, your child is living with you, there is no court order, and your husband wants to visit with the child?
Allowing Your Wife to Visit Your Child
- Information sheet from Southeastern Ohio Legal Services. What do you do if you are separated from your wife, your child is living with you, and your wife wants to visit with the child?
At the Crossroads of Grandparent Visitation
-In Ohio, grandparents can seek court-ordered visitation if the child's parents are unmarried, if the child's parents file for a divorce or dissolution or legal separation, or if one of the child's parents has died.
Grandparents Rights with Regard to Grandchildren
- This brochure discusses grandparents' rights with respect to obtaining child support and visitation rights with their grandchildren.
How to Change or Enforce an Existing Visitation Order
- This article from the Ohio State Legal Services Association discusses how to change or enforce an existing visitation order.
Sharing Parental Responsibilities After Separation
-When parents come before the domestic relations court to terminate their marriage, the most important issues the court must address involve what will happen to their children. The marriage may end, but both former spouses will still be parents, and their children will still need to be cared for and protected.
Other Resources
Domestic Relations Mediation Program - Franklin County
- Mediation is a problem solving process in which a neutral professional (the mediator) facilitates communication between parties involved in a divorce or a domestic relations dispute. The mediator helps parents understand the needs of their children, reach agreements in their children’s best interest and develop a cooperative parenting relationship.
Related Library Topics
Adoption and Foster Care
Child Care
Child Custody
Child Support
Co-Habiting (Unmarried) Partners
Legal Separation, Divorce and Dissolution
Paternity
Spousal Support and Other Marital Rights
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