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visitation

visitation

48 5.4
A court order that lets someone see a child who lives with another parent
  • noun
  • /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : régimen de visitas
  • The judge granted him visitation rights every weekend to see his children.
  • custody and visitation
  • visitation rights
  • child visitation

Because if he wanted a visitation with her, he would go back to court.

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Examples

  • I was only given visitation rights to my own settlement.

  • Nurses also felt that visitation had several benefits for family members.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Because if he wanted a visitation with her, he would go back to court.

  • Hey, maybe get more visitation time with Adam.

  • I forgot to tell you that I told him you would do visitation at the hospital tonight.

  • Another stated problem exists with biological parents' visitation and not enough financial support.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Mr. Hillard will have visitation rights every Saturday.

  • My father became interested in visitation rights about the time we moved to Slaughter.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • So the ongoing hassling is over child visitation and child custody issues.

  • A recent court case can be viewed as a setback for grandparents seeking visitation rights.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

visitation right
vsvisitation
  • Formal
12 6.1

A right given by a court to see a child you do not live with

means the same legally but is the single-word or general term

Antonyms

61 2.8

Refusing a request or saying something is not true

Compounds

12 6.1

A right given by a court to see a child you do not live with

1 9.3

A private visit in prison where a person sees their spouse for sexual contact

Permission for a prisoner to have private visits with their spouse for sex

How Accessible

visitation
  • Formal
48 5.4
access
2.6

Surface Forms

visitation singular
visitations plural

Morphology

visitation = visit (semi-transparent) = visit + ation

Derived from 'visit' + '-ation' but this sense denotes a specialized legal/administrative right or scheduled permission, which may not be fully inferable to an average learner.

Etymology

Visitation comes from the Latin visitare, 'to go and see', and is the same root as visit, so in law a 'visitation' is the right or arranged time for someone to go and see a person who is in another's care.