Ways to Remove Visitation Rights
Child custody is a complicated area of family law, and one section of that law deals with the visitation rights of parents. If you want to get visitation rights removed then you have several options available to you. You will need to prove that the rights should be removed, unless those rights are being given up voluntarily.
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Willing Removal
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If one parent wants to give up visitation rights, then all you need to do is sign the appropriate papers. If you go to the courthouse where your child custody case was tried, you can get the paperwork necessary to have one parent give up all parental rights, including visitation rights. However, if the other parent doesn't want to give up visitation rights, then you need to take other options.
Child's Best Interests
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Proving that it is not in the child's best interest to be visited by a parent is grounds for reducing or eliminating that parent's visitation rights. Reasons might be that the parent has a drug problem, neglects children during visits or has sex in front of the children. These are all good reasons to declare that the one parent shouldn't have visitation rights, or that those rights should be severely curtailed.
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Children's Right
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At the age of 16 (the exact age varies by state), a child can request a change in the visitation rights of a parent. The child still has to prove that his best interest lies in not seeing one parent , but the child no longer needs to have parental approval to make this choice.
Crimes
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If a parent commits a crimes against a child then visitation rights will be altered or removed completely. Crimes such as keeping the child too long and violating the visitation times are minor offenses that can result in reduced rights, whereas crimes like assault, neglect and molestation are severe crimes that can eliminate a parent's rights along with carrying additional legal punishments.
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