Child Support – Can Visitation Be Withheld If One Parent Doesn’t Pay it?

December 10, 2011 by  
Filed under One Parent Advice

Article by E Brooks Of all the threats one parent can make against another parent, the threat of keeping your child from you is likely the most painful. Angry parents will look for reasons to withhold visitation, but what do the courts say about it? The courts primary responsibility is to protect the best interest of the child. This means that regardless of child support covered medical expenses, daycare, alimony or any other financially binding items that one parent may owe another parent; this lack of payment cannot be used to keep the child from spending time with the other [...]