visitation right

1. 1.

   the right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis

   Broaderlegal right

   law

Questions about visitation right

What does visitation right mean?

visitation right means "the right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis".

Is visitation right a common word?

visitation right is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.