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Many circumstances in domestic cases such as divorce, paternity, or guardianship actions can lead to a situation where a court orders that one party's visitation with his or her minor children be supervised by a professional third party. Oklahoma statute, under the Oklahoma Child Supervised Visitation Program (Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 110.1a (2004), provides that the associate district judge of each county may create a supervised visitation team to (a) identify entities which will provide a place for visitations to occur, (b) identify individuals willing to serve as third-party visitation supervisors, and (c) establish training requirements for volunteers. among other tasks. Unfortunately it seems that the majority of counties in Oklahoma have failed to establish such teams. Therefore, the Kania Law Office provides this page to help those trying to exercise their supervised visitation rights. Licenses
and Accreditation for Oklahoma Visitation Supervisors: Oklahoma
Supervised
Child Visitation Resource Links: Supervised
Child Visitation Providers in Oklahoma: Matthew
Mellage - Specializes in supervision for high risk cases. An off
duty police officer is present for all visitations. $40.00 per
hour. Serves the greater Tulsa, Oklahoma area. The
Parent Child Center of Tulsa, Inc. - Marshall Crutcher heads up
the supervised visitation program for The Parent Child Center of Tulsa,
which is a non-profit organization to help children and parents
Tulsa. All visitation supervisors have a license in Professional
Counseling or a Masters Degree in a related field. Charges for
services are provided on a sliding scale, based on the income of
family. To begin each parent (custodian and non-custodial) must
schedule an intake, the charges for which range from $0 to $125 for
families that make $40,000 or greater per year. Fees for
visitation range from $0 per hour to $65 for the first hour and $30 for
each additional hour. At the beginning all visitation must be
completed at the Parent Child Center of Tulsa, located near downtown
Tulsa. Later, by agreement of all parties, visitation can go off
site, to locations such as parks, the zoo, the mall, or movie theaters. Court
Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) - Not currently providing
supervised visitation. Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) - Only provides supervised visitation in special circumstances. KANIA
LAW
OFFICE:
Oklahoma child custody lawyers
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