20-124.8 - Deployment; temporary order.
§ 20-124.8. Deployment; temporary order.
A. Any court order limiting previously ordered custodial or visitation rightsof a deploying parent or guardian due to the parent's or guardian'sdeployment shall specify the deployment as the basis for the order and shallbe entered by the court as a temporary order. Any such order shall furtherrequire the nondeploying parent or guardian to provide the court with 30 daysadvance written notice of any change of address and any change of telephonenumber.
B. The court, on motion of the deploying parent or guardian returning fromdeployment seeking to amend or review the custody or visitation order enteredbased upon the deployment, shall set a hearing on the matter that shall takeprecedence on the court's docket, and shall be set within 30 days of thefiling of the motion. For purposes of this hearing, the nondeploying parentor guardian shall bear the burden of showing that reentry of the custody orvisitation order in effect before the deployment is no longer in the child'sbest interests.
C. This section shall not otherwise preclude a parent or guardian frompetitioning for a modification of a custody or visitation order based upon achange in circumstances.
(2008, c. 750.)