Supervision may be by a professional provider, an agency, or an approved family member. It is ordered where unsupervised contact poses risk from abuse, substance use, mental health concerns, or abduction risk.
Orders typically include a path to unsupervised time.
Alternative Names:
Supervised Parenting Time|Monitored Visitation
Why it Matters?
Step-down provisions establishing conditions for progressing to unsupervised time are what prevent supervision from becoming permanent by default, since a parent meeting no defined milestones has no route to modification and supervision continues indefinitely. Requesting specific benchmarks including treatment completion and clean testing intervals is accordingly important for the supervised parent. Cost allocation is separately contested.
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What prevents indefinite supervision?
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