J.F.E. v. J.A.S.

MATTHEWS, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in restricting a father’s visitation privileges with his daughter to visits under the supervision of a third party. We conclude that a number of the findings made by the court concern incidents which are too removed in time and too trivial to support supervised visitation. We conclude further that while unrestricted visitation is the norm, supervised visitation can be required when the court makes findings which specify why unsupervised visitation is contrary to the best interests of the child. We remand for further…