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Virtual Visitation Revisited

BY Mark A. Momjian
May 01, 2016

Just a decade ago, most divorced or separated parents relied on DSL (digital subscriber lines) modems to achieve video-conferencing capability with their children, but the technology was considered too slow and unreliable by many. Today, however, with high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi options, many parents and children can use ever-advancing technology that allows them to communicate with each other using “face technologies.”

Background

Prior to the digital age, family lawyers generally inserted “reasonable telephone and mail contact” provisions, and while there were always examples in which these privileges were abused, the length of telephone calls was dictated not only by the age of the child, but by the cost of the communication. To many divorced or separated parents, these are non-issues today. For one thing, even in intact families, the use of face technology to communicate with children starts practically at birth, with custodial parents checking in with children while at work, on a business trip or while stationed overseas at a military base. But the need for the use of face technologies may be most important in divorce or separation relocation cases in which an “away parent” wants to maximize virtual visitation on a daily (or almost daily) basis.

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