NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 751

SENATE BILL 722

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR FINDINGS OF FACT CONCERNING VISITATION RIGHTS IN CERTAIN CHILD CUSTODY CASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  In any case in which an award of child custody is made in a district court, the trial judge, prior to denying a parent the right of reasonable visitation, shall make a written finding of fact that the parent being denied visitation rights is an unfit person to visit the child or that such visitation rights are not in the best interest of the child.

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective June 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.