EVOLUCIÓN DEL CONTENIDO DEL DERECHO DE VISITA DESDE EL ESTUDIO JURISPRUDENCIAL.

Abstract

At first visitation rights were set up in response to the needs of the parent who is not awarded guardianship and custody of the children in the wake of a break up. In a parallel development, the need for this parent to establish relationships of greater stability with the children was detected. From the parent's standpoint, visitation is an inalienable faculty; from the child's standpoint, the child's interests and benefit come first for the law, and courts may restrict visitation on a case-by-case basis. Presiding over this right is the rule of good faith, together with the natural cooperation of the two parents. Visitation rights mean more now than they used to. Not only may the parent without custody visit and communicate with the children; he or she is actually required to participate actively in the children's training, education and welfare.