Changing Visitation in Your Divorce Agreement

Because of your job or other events in your life, you will want to change visitation dates from time to time. For the most part, however, you will want to follow the schedule as much as possible, not cancel at the last minute, and be on time. If you continually miss scheduled visitations, your parenting partner could petition the court to decrease visitation or custody and increase your child support. The court can change visitation - and even custody - upon the other parent's request if you do not show an interest in having visitation.

If you do not need to change the overall parenting schedule, you can petition the court for a modification. Whenever you agree to change the terms of a court order regarding visitation, that change needs to be commemorated with another court order.

If you need to change visitation, you can petition the court for a change. If you show a material change in circumstances, then the court may modify the current visitation order to accommodate the new set of circumstances.