What happens if the other parent violates the custody order?

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If a parent violates a custody order and that custody order has to do with major decisions about the the child’s care or about the other parents visitation or parenting time, there are two things that you can do and ask the court for relief to resolve those issues. The first thing is if those violations are sufficient enough, it might be a cause for you to ask the court to modify the parenting plan or the custody order. If the other parent is making decisions about the other child that is causing

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harm to the other child and that parent is the legal custodian or the person who is in charge of making major decisions about the child’s care, you can ask the court to change that and the court might agree with you and make the other parent the person in charge of making those major decisions. The other thing you can do if a parent is not complying with the court’s custody order is you can file a petition for contempt. And there are two types of petition for contempt of Tennessee. As it relates to custody

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orders, if one parent refuses to let you have your parenting time, not only can you ask the court to change the schedule so that you have more time, but you can also ask the court to hold that parent in contempt and in fact incarcerate them for withholding your parenting time as a punishment because you’ve now lost that time with your

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