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: Access rightsAccess Rights are the visitation or Contact Orders that a non residential parent gets after divorce. With the help of these rights the non custodial parent can be in regular contact with the child after divorce. In event of divorce when couple with children starts staying separately, one parent holds the legal custody of the child. This means that the child stays in the same residence with one parent and he is the legal guardian for the child. The other parent gets other rights like visitation, contact orders, parental responsibility, and so on. A child’s personality can only be nurtured if he or she gets the love and company of both mother and father. This is ideally not possible in case of divorce because the parents start staying in different houses. To avoid a situation where the child gets to see only one parent during his or her growing years, the court designates Access Rights. In many cases couples have such estranged relationship that they cannot stand each other at all. For example, Sam and Sandra had a really bad relationship when they got divorced. After a fierce custody battle Stella got hold of the custody of their eight year old son. Sam got Access and Visitation rights. Stella would have never allowed the father to meet the son if the court had not made this compulsory by granting Visitation and Contact Orders. The whole purpose of these rights is to ensure that the child does not get deprived from the love and care of the other parent. What all things can a parent do with Access Rights?If the parent has the access rights he or she can meet the child as fixed under the visitation schedule. The non custodial parent can either take the child for an outing or keep the child for a few nights depending on the circumstances. If the child is very young then he has to be accompanied by the custodial parent, if the child is old enough he can go for visitation on his own. The non custodial parent should take full advantage of the access rights by spending quality time with the child. This will help the child get closer to the other parent who is otherwise away for most of the time. Thus the non custodial parent should carefully plan the visitation and arrange for all that the child loves. Who all can get Access Rights?Visitation or Access Rights can be availed by all the parents who were legally married. In case of unwedded parents, the father can get contact orders if he is able to establish his paternity. After doing so the unwedded father can either get into an agreement with the mother regarding visitation rights, or can move the court to fight for the same. Apart from parents, the grandparents and other close relatives can also Access Rights from the court. The law believes that grandparents play an equally important role in the development of the child and thus should not be deprived of the same. The law of UK thus tries to create minimum barrier between the child and grandparents so that free access is possible. Access Rights are the most important rights that can bridge the gap between the children and their non custodial parents as well as other close members of the family.
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