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Appendix C Guidelines for visitation

Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated34th Judicial Circuit - Mccreary and Whitley Circuit Courts

Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated
34th Judicial Circuit - Mccreary and Whitley Circuit Courts
KY RMWC App. C
Appendix C Guidelines for visitation
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It is typically in the children's best interest that each parent or custodian has frequent, meaningful, and continuing contact with the children. The parties, in exercising parenting time, should be cooperative and should adapt to the circumstances of the children and of both parties. Parenting time should be liberal and flexible.
The parties are expected to fairly and reasonably modify visitation when family necessities, illnesses, or commitments so require. The parties are also expected to communicate these needs to the other and to provide as much advance notice as is possible, given the circumstances.
It is recommended that each parent specifically obey the following Guidelines for Visitation. Each parent is under an affirmative duty to foster the love and affection of the child for the other parent, and neither parent should:
1. Do or say anything that will interfere with the love and affection of the child for the other parent.
2. Allow third parties to do or say anything to or in the presence of the child that will interfere with the love and affection of the child for the other parent.
3. Have the child deliver money or messages from one parent to the other and thus place the child in the middle.
4. Ask the child to keep a secret from the other parent and, in effect, teach the child to lie.
5. Quiz the child about what is going on at the other parent's home and thus turn the child into a spy.
6. Say unkind things about the other parent to the child or in the presence of the child.
7. Try to conduct parental business when exchanging the child for visitation.
8. Make any threat or start arguments with the other parent when exchanging the child for visitation.
9. Ask the child directly or subtly “which of us do you really want to be with,” and thus place the burden on the child.
10. Have the child refer to the future stepparent as “mother” or “father”.
11. Eavesdrop on or interrupt the child's telephone conversations with the other parent.

Credits

HISTORY: Adopted effective August 4, 2017.
McCreary and Whitley Circuit Court App. C, KY R MCCREARY WHITLEY CIR CT App. C
Current with amendments received through November 15, 2023. Some rules may be more current, see credits for details.
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