Can a parent who is deployed give his/her visitation rights to a family member?
If the deploying parent requests it, the court may allow his/her parenting time to be delegated temporarily while s/he is deployed, to:
- a family member;
- someone s/he lives with; or
- someone who has a close relationship with the child.
The court must decide that this is in the child’s best interest. However, this arrangement ends when the temporary order is no longer in place, and the other person does not gain permanent parenting rights.1
1 N.H. Rev. Stat. § 458-E:3(IV)