Mom, Dad, and the Holidays: How Visitation Orders Work

Video Transcript: So what is a holiday under a visitation schedule? My name is Brian L. Jackson. I’m a fathers’ rights attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma here with dads.law where fathers are not disposable.

We’re still talking about interpreting different terms and clauses in your decree. And I want to talk to you guys today about what a holiday actually is under that term as it’s used in a family court order. Well, typically when the family court refers to a holiday, unless your specific order defines it differently, we’re talking about the major holidays, in other words, federal and state holidays.

So some examples of that would be Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Spring break. Fall break. Those are examples of what count as holidays under these types of schedules, typically the courts won’t like be divvying up things like Halloween or Valentine’s Day or St. Patty’s Day because they’re not major holidays. Usually it’s the major holidays. And a good measure is if schools close, that’s when that comes into play.

Now, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are an exception to that. They are considered major holidays for the purposes of the schedule. And of course, the child’s birthday. And normally Mother’s Day goes to the mother, Father’s Day goes to the father, and that pretty much is set in stone absent some unique circumstances. But that’s what the term holiday means, generally speaking, when you’re talking about a custody order, unless it’s specified to mean something different in your custody order.

And if you have any questions about that, I would encourage you to reach out to an Oklahoma visitation rights lawyer at dads.law where fathers are not disposable.