Getting a Parenting Time or Visitation Order

Produced by Attorney Jeff Wolf for MassLegalHelp
Reviewed February, 2018

If you are a parent and you need to ask the court for a Parenting Time or Visitation Order, use a complaint, the Affidavit Disclosing Care or Custody Proceeding,  a motion, an affidavit, a proposed order, or a 209A complaint.

Sometimes you need to file a few of these forms. Sometimes you only need to file 2. You use different forms if you or your children are not safe.

If the other parent files a complaint about parenting time or visitation, you should file an answer.

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