Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

: court or not

It depends on the language of the court judgment. If you believe that her actions violate the court order, then you need to file a complaint for contempt.

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Re: court or not

It is always appropriate to enforce your visitation rights, providing that they are, indeed, your visitation rights. I would have to see your divorce judgment (separation agreement) to review this further.

Visitation games are entirely disapproved by the courts.

It is usually best to have more than one instance of refusal to honor the visitation order, or one major instance (e.g., refusal to grant Christmas visitation).

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Re: court or not

Enforce your visitation rights, or establish a pattern of verbal modification by the custodial parent without your consent. Unless the curt ord4ers permits visits to be cancelled without consent, you have every right to enforce visitation. Visitation is a right of both the parent and the child.