How does visitation get set?
Courts will attempt to create a “meaningful” and “substantial” contact with the non-custodial parent, as discussed above. Each party will submit to the Court a “Parenting Plan,” outlining proposed visitation for the other party. In an uncontested divorce proceeding, the Court will generally approve what the parties have agreed to. The judge is free to set visitation he or she feels in in the child’s best interest, using either party’s Proposed Parenting Plan or creating his own.
