Howard County, Maryland Visitation Attorneys

Family Lawyers Serving Howard County, Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel County

Do live or work in Columbia or the Howard County, Maryland area and need legal assistance with a child visitation issue? Let a Howard County visitation attorney at the Law Office of Silverman & Cook, L.L.C. help you. Our firm has focused on divorce and family law for almost ten years and we are well-versed in Maryland family and divorce law. Our legal team is dedicated to providing caring and knowledgeable representation to those facing visitation issues. We offer a free initial phone consultation regarding your legal issue and welcome inquiries from custodial and non-custodial parents, mothers, fathers, and grandparents.

Visitation Rights

Child custody and visitation rights may be a major source of conflict in any divorce. With sole physical and legal custody of a child, the custodial parent makes all decisions regarding the child's welfare but the non-custodial parent still may have visitation rights.  Once child custody is determined by the court, a visitation schedule by the non-custodial parent may be set up.

Often a court will order "reasonable" visitation rights, letting the parents work out a schedule. This allows the parents to take into consideration both their schedules and the children's. Sometimes courts will set up a fixed visitation schedule which includes the times and places of visitation for the non-custodial parent. This type of schedule allows predictability for the child and prevents one parent from controlling the other's time and opportunity to see the child.    

Grandparents of children of divorced parents may also petition courts for visitation rights. Grandparents may have to prove to the court, however, that harm may come to the grandchild if he or she is not allowed to be visited by the grandparents.

Talk to a Howard County Visitation Lawyer

Whether you are a parent or grandparent, whether one child or many are involved, if you have a visitation rights issue, we urge you contact a Howard County visitation attorney at our firm as soon as possible so that we may start working on your case today.