Creating a Good Custody Schedule

There are many reasons to create a child custody schedule, the first being your children. After a divorce or separation, you should consider making a custody schedule for your children. Many child visitation and custody documents are predicated on state laws, so it is important that you understand your state's laws and regulations for each document you create. Let's take a look at Nevada state laws regarding child custody and visitation and more specifically, Nevada's laws on creating custody schedules. Nevada does not really have any set rules as per the creation of child custody schedules. You can, however, find information about Nevada's laws on custody and visitation in Chapter 125C of the Nevada Revised Statutes. Though Nevada does not have exact details on how to create a child custody schedule, they do provide some general guidelines as to how to personalize your custody schedule to best fit your family's needs. In Nevada, you must present your child custody schedule and the court decides whether to include it in your custody order. It must be approved by the court to be a part of your custody order. Guidelines found in Chapter 125C.010 that you should familiarize yourself with to make your custody schedule part of the official custody order are:

• Showing specific times and other terms of custody and visitation as well as parenting time. You need to create a schedule that shows where your children are every day of the year.

• Sufficiently defining visitation rights with particularity so that they can be enforced (if one parent has custody and the other has visitation). You need a specific visitation schedule as well as to consider provisions that provide details about how visitation will work.

• Whether the children mostly live in Nevada. The children must habitually reside in Nevada if a Nevada court is making the official custody order.

Those are the basics of a generalized custody schedule in Nevada. If you need to make a sole custody schedule, familiarize yourself with the non-custodial parent's visitation rights Chapter 125C.020. They include:

• If the non-custodial parent is wrongfully deprived of visitation rights, the court may order additional visits to compensate for any missed visits.

• If additional visits are permitted or ordered, those visits must be the same type and duration as the visit(s) that were previously denied, must be taken within one year of the denied visit(s), and at a time chosen by the non-custodial parent.

• Written notice must be given by the non-custodial parent for the additional visit(s) at least seven days in advance of the proposed visit if the visit is on a weekday or weekend. Written notice of at least 30 days must be given if the proposed visit is on a holiday or vacation time.

• If the custodial parent does not comply with the order of additional visits, he or she may be found guilty of contempt and may also be sentenced to imprisonment in county jail. The custodial parent may be released to go to work.

As you can see, it is important know and understand how your state's guidelines for child custody and visitation work. If you live in Nevada and need to create a child custody schedule, use the above guidelines to help you make the best Nevada custody schedule possible.