Okla. Stat. tit. 43 § 424

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 424 - Forms for petition and court order - Modification of visitation rights

A. The Office of the Court Administrator shall develop:

1. A form for use in petitioning the court for inclusion in the child visitation registry which shall be distributed to all court clerk offices; and

2. A form for the court's order requiring participation in the registry. This form shall provide for the following:

a. a requirement that a copy of the order be given to each parent, the child visitation registry agency, and court file,

b. a determination of who is authorized to pick up or deliver a child to the child visitation registry agency. The list may include, but is not limited to, parents, stepparents, and grandparents,

c. a determination of when the participants shall meet to pick up or deliver a child to the child visitation registry agency. This decision shall include specific days of the week and time periods,

d. the date when participation in the program shall begin or end, and

e. a requirement that the participant delivering the child to the registry must wait at the agency and sign out after the participant picking up the child has departed from the agency.

B. If a parent, or other person with custody, is habitually late to pick up or deliver the child or children, the court may, upon proper notice, consider reducing or canceling visitation temporarily or permanently.

Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 424

Added by Laws 1996, SB 73, c. 131, § 5, eff. 1/1/1997.