1. Any order awarding a party a right of visitation of a minor child must:

(a) Define that right with sufficient particularity to ensure that the rights of the parties can be properly enforced and that the best interest of the child is achieved; and

(b) Specify that the State of Nevada or the state where the child resides within the United States of America is the habitual residence of the child. The order must include all specific times and other terms of the right of visitation.

2. As used in this section, "sufficient particularity" means a statement of the rights in absolute terms and not by the use of the term "reasonable" or other similar term which is susceptible to different interpretations by the parties.

When families with children are in the process of obtaining a divorce, the most difficult problem to determine after custody is established is what is “reasonable visitation.” This can range from alternating weekends, to a two/five day split or to a fifty/fifty split depending on the type of custody which is awarded.

Absent an agreement between the parties, after a complaint for divorce is filed, the Court will usually send the parties to mediation to resolve custody and visitation issues. As this stage of the process the parties are allowed to work out what visitation is best for them and their children. Mediation in Nevada is non-binding. In the event the parties cannot resolve visitation the Court will ultimately hold an evidentiary hearing and set the visitation schedule which it deems is in the children’s best interests. Usually no one is happy with the Court’s order. Therefore, if possible, it is in the parties’ and their children’s interests to resolve this issue without Court intervention.