CT · rules

Conn. Practice Book § 25-4

Action for Visitation of Minor Child

activein force · 2025-01-01 – presentact-effective-date

Every application or verified petition in an action

for visitation of a minor child, other than actions

for dissolution of marriage or civil union, legal separation or annulment, shall state the name and

date of birth of such minor child or children, the

names of the parents and legal guardian of such

minor child or children, and the facts necessary to

give the court jurisdiction. An application brought

under this section shall comply with Section 25-

5. Any application or verified petition brought under

this Section shall be commenced by an order to

show cause. Upon presentation of the applica -

tion or verified petition and an affidavit concerning

children, the judicial authority shall cause an order

to be issued requiring the adverse party or parties

to appear on a day certain and show cause, if any

there be, why the relief requested in the applica -

tion or verified petition should not be granted. The

application or verified petition, order and affidavit

shall be served on the adverse party not less than

twelve days before the date of the hearing or other

court event, which shall not be more than thirty-five days from the filing of the application or veri -

fied petition.

History

(P.B. 1998.) (Amended June 28, 1999, to take effect Jan. 1, 2000; amended June 26, 2000, to take effect Jan. 1, 2001; amended June 26, 2006, to take effect Jan. 1, 2007; amended June 13, 2014, to take effect Jan. 1, 2015; amended June 14, 2024, to take effect Jan. 1, 2025.)

Provenance

Source: jud.ct.gov
Retrieved: 2026-09-15
Edition: 2026-09-15
Content hash: 271111b70343bf39cb79d553e50a6015cb4027bb32b77f6d81f4205ab959e17e

View the official source →

The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.

Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.

Coverage · API docs