Out of State Visitation Schedule

[specialkspecial]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California
Custodial parent lives in Arkansas, and moved there with the child 4 years ago. Non-custodial parent lives in California. Every 6 months the parties are back in mediation court and having the court adopt another plan because both parties are never happy. Custodial parent in Arkansas continually does not answer the phone with non-custodial parent tries to call and talk to the child. This makes it extremely difficult for the custodial parent to have regular telelephone contact with the child. The child lives over 2,000 miles away from non-custodial parent. The old custody visitation agreement was non-custodial parent gets one weekend a month with the child and alternating Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Break. Now the new agreement based upon a recent report the mediator just gave, removed all of the custodial's right to "one weekend a month" with the child and gave him one week for summer for the months of June and July, and Spring Break and alternating Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unfortunately, this means the custodial parent will go 4 months at a time without seeing him and with barely any phone contact. Parties are scheduled back in court in a week. What advice would you have for the non-custodial parent to get the judge to approve adding back in the "one weekend a month" visitation. The child is 5 and has been enjoying monthly visits with the non-custodial parent and the results of this regular contact have been such where the child looks forward to flying out to see the non-custodial parent and even wants to talk more on the phone to him and feels more comfortable with him for longer periods of time. Taking this monthly visitation away will hinder this relationship and if it's not in writing, the custodial parent will refuse to allow the non-custodial parent to visit the child. Also, in regards to transportation costs, the court had ruled 3 months back that both parties would split the costs of airfare and hotel. Any advice for how to get the judge to award the non-custodial parent with his monthly weekend visits since the mediator's report removed the non-custodials right for these weekend-monthly visits.

 

[Just Blue]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California
Custodial parent lives in Arkansas, and moved there with the child 4 years ago. Non-custodial parent lives in California. Every 6 months the parties are back in mediation court and having the court adopt another plan because both parties are never happy. Custodial parent in Arkansas continually does not answer the phone with non-custodial parent tries to call and talk to the child. This makes it extremely difficult for the custodial parent to have regular telelephone contact with the child. The child lives over 2,000 miles away from non-custodial parent. The old custody visitation agreement was non-custodial parent gets one weekend a month with the child and alternating Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Break.


Now the new agreement based upon a recent report the mediator just gave, removed all of the custodial's right to "one weekend a month" with the child and gave him one week for summer for the months of June and July, and Spring Break and alternating Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Unfortunately, this means the custodial parent will go 4 months at a time without seeing him and with barely any phone contact. Parties are scheduled back in court in a week. What advice would you have for the non-custodial parent to get the judge to approve adding back in the "one weekend a month" visitation.


The child is 5 and has been enjoying monthly visits with the non-custodial parent and the results of this regular contact have been such where the child looks forward to flying out to see the non-custodial parent and even wants to talk more on the phone to him and feels more comfortable with him for longer periods of time. Taking this monthly visitation away will hinder this relationship and if it's not in writing, the custodial parent will refuse to allow the non-custodial parent to visit the child. Also, in regards to transportation costs, the court had ruled 3 months back that both parties would split the costs of airfare and hotel. Any advice for how to get the judge to award the non-custodial parent with his monthly weekend visits since the mediator's report removed the non-custodials right for these weekend-monthly visits.

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[stealth2]

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[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California
Custodial parent lives in Arkansas, and moved there with the child 4 years ago. Non-custodial parent lives in California. Every 6 months the parties are back in mediation court and having the court adopt another plan because both parties are never happy. Custodial parent in Arkansas continually does not answer the phone with non-custodial parent tries to call and talk to the child. This makes it extremely difficult for the custodial parent to have regular telelephone contact with the child. The child lives over 2,000 miles away from non-custodial parent. The old custody visitation agreement was non-custodial parent gets one weekend a month with the child and alternating Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Break. Now the new agreement based upon a recent report the mediator just gave, removed all of the custodial's right to "one weekend a month" with the child and gave him one week for summer for the months of June and July, and Spring Break and alternating Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unfortunately, this means the custodial parent will go 4 months at a time without seeing him and with barely any phone contact. Parties are scheduled back in court in a week. What advice would you have for the non-custodial parent to get the judge to approve adding back in the "one weekend a month" visitation. The child is 5 and has been enjoying monthly visits with the non-custodial parent and the results of this regular contact have been such where the child looks forward to flying out to see the non-custodial parent and even wants to talk more on the phone to him and feels more comfortable with him for longer periods of time. Taking this monthly visitation away will hinder this relationship and if it's not in writing, the custodial parent will refuse to allow the non-custodial parent to visit the child. Also, in regards to transportation costs, the court had ruled 3 months back that both parties would split the costs of airfare and hotel. Any advice for how to get the judge to award the non-custodial parent with his monthly weekend visits since the mediator's report removed the non-custodials right for these weekend-monthly visits.

I think that you should read over your own post...and the edit it for clarity...with white spaces between paragraphs.

There is even some confusion in your post between custodial and non custodial parent.