When a visitation agreement is reached, a court will order that all parties adhere to the arrangement in the order. But sometimes someone will violate a part of the visitation agreement. For example, one parent may forget to bring the child to the other parent at the agreed upon time.

If a party to the agreement does not follow an existing visitation order, they could face consequences if legal action is taken to enforce the order. One woman discovered what can happen after she tried to keep her deceased husband's parents from seeing her daughter.

In September of last year, the grandparents were granted visitation with the little girl; the order gave them every other weekend with her. The mother tried to delay some of the overnight visitations, but they still began a month after the visitation rights were granted.

But in the next few months, the mother failed to bring the little girl to the grandparents' home at the agreed time and would not tell them where she had taken the little girl. She merely told them that she was out of the state.

But in March, a judge put out a warrant for the mother's arrest for failing to appear in court to explain why the visitation order was being violated. According to the article, the mother was located in another state and was arrested. She is currently being held for extradition back to the state where the agreement was made.

The little girl is currently with her uncle until the mother is extradited. It is unclear what sort of penalties the mother may face for violating the court order and then failing to appear in court. But this entire incident may result in a visitation order modification that could decrease the amount of time the mother has with the little girl.

Source: Jacksonville Journal-Courier online, "Jennifer Watkins arrested in Florida on Cass warrant," Maria Nagle, 16 March 2011