Options for Maintaining Visitation Rights during Deployment

Hello, my name is Brian L. Jackson. I’m a Tulsa father’s rights attorney here with Dads.Law, where fathers are not disposable. So let’s talk about what happens if you are in the service and you’re deployed. What happens to your visitation?

Clearly, if you’re deployed abroad, you’re probably not going to be in a position to exercise visitation if, let’s say, you’re in Saudi Arabia. So what happens? Well, under Title 43, you have authority to appoint someone to exercise your visitation on your behalf, and that person would be a stand-in for you while you’re deployed.

Now, obviously, you can also make other accommodations, like, for example, visitation using a video call app such as FaceTime or something similar. And assuming you’re in a location where that’s an option, that’s a good option, and it’s something you might look into doing.

Appointing Another Individual for Visitation

But the other thing is you can appoint another individual to exercise visitation on your behalf, such as a parent or a sibling. And I would encourage you, if you know you’re about to go on active duty, this is something to explore. Obviously, take care of it with enough lead time that it can happen, and that’s where you want to get with a good lawyer who can help you with that and also who can give you an idea of what the court’s calendar looks like because that’s an ever-present problem, especially in Tulsa County. We’re the second busiest county in the state, so unfortunately that means there’s a lot of demand for court time, and there’s just not enough of it to go around.

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If you’re in that situation, you definitely want a good lawyer. One place you can find a good lawyer is Dads.Law, where fathers are not disposable.