visitation rights (1)(家庭法)探视权 指作为非监护人的父亲或母亲一方(或祖父母、外祖父母)依据法院命令而享有的一种特权，对于与他人(通常是行使监护权的父亲或母亲一方)共同生活的子女(或孙子女、外孙子女)，可以据此而与之共处一段时间。 (2)(国际法)登临检查权；临检权 交战国一方有权登临并检查中立船舶，以探知其有无运载战时禁制品或从事非中立业务之事实。一经发现上述情事，搜查者可以扣押战时禁制品并作出相应处罚。亦作「right of visitation」。 (→visit)
visitation right. 1. Family law. A noncustodial parent’s or grandparent’s court-ordered privilege of spending time with a child or grandchild who is living with another person, usu. the custodial parent. • The noncustodial parent with visitation rights may sometimes be a parent from whose custody the child has been removed because of abuse or neglect.
visitation order. Family law. 1. An order establishing the visiting times for a noncustodial parent with his or her child. [Cases: Child Custody 525. C.J.S. Parent and Child §§ 132–133.] 2. An order establishing the visiting times for a child and a person with a significant relationship to the child. • Such an order may
visitation books (英格兰古法)纹章调查清册 指1528-1686年间通过庄重和正规的巡视审查，由纹章官们〔heralds〕对经过宣誓证实的各家族的家系情况进行登记所产生的汇编性资料。其内容包括家族现状、纹章与家谱、婚姻、继承人等情况，它被认为是家系方面有效的证据。
Uniform Putative and Unknown Fathers Act. A 1988 model statute aimed at codifying Supreme Court decisions on the rights of an unwed father in relation to his child. • The Act deals primarily with an unwed father’s right to notice of a termination and adoption proceeding, to adjudication of paternity, to visitation, and to custody.
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physical custody. 1. Custody of a person (such as an arrestee) whose freedom is directly controlled and limited. 2. Family law. The right to have the child live with the person awarded custody by the court. — Also termed residential custody. [Cases: Child Custody 147, 209.] 3. Possession of a child during visitation.
modification order. Family law. A post-divorce order that changes the terms of child support, custody, visitation, or alimony. • A modification order may be agreed to by the parties or may be ordered by the court. The party wishing to modify an existing order must show a material change in circumstances from the time when
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clean-hands doctrine. The principle that a party cannot seek equitable relief or assert an equitable defense if that party has violated an equitable principle, such as good faith. • Such a party is described as having “unclean hands.” For example, § 8 of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act contains an unclean-hands provision that forbids
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A process in which the birth parents and adoptive parents negotiate to reach a voluntary agreement about the degree and type of continuing contact after adoption, including direct visitation or more limited arrangements such as communication by telephone or mail, the exchange of either identifying or non-identifying information, and other forms of contact. Cf. open
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right of search. Int’l law. The right to stop, visit, and examine vessels on the high seas to discover whether they or the goods they carry are liable to capture; esp., a belligerent state’s right to stop any merchant vessel of a neutral state on the high seas and to search as reasonably necessary to