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Is there an accepted minimum age that a chid must reach before which a court will order overnight visitation rights with the non-custodial parent ?

By: דיאנה שאלתיאלPublished on: 03 May, 2022

Generally courts do not permit overnight visitation rights before a child reaches the age of two. Where a father with visitation rights regarding his one year old son had applied for these to include overnight stays, the Tel Aviv Family Court refused to consider this until he reached two, relying on the book ‘Sleeping Like A Baby’ by Dr. Avi Sadeh.


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