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Court approves phased supervised visitation for Tristan Thornberry with 7-year-old daughter
Summary
Judicially approved plan gives Tristan Thornberry phased, supervised contact with his 7-year-old daughter under the oversight of paternal grandparents, with a schedule that increases time over three weekends and an expectation of reporting violations to the court.
A judge approved an order allowing supervised, phased-in visitation between Tristan Thornberry and his 7-year-old daughter, under the supervision of the paternal grandparents and subject to the court's jurisdiction.
Counsel for the paternal grandparents described a stepwise plan: the first granted weekend would allow two hours of residential time on Saturday and two hours on Sunday; the next alternating weekend would allow four hours; by the third scheduled weekend the father would have residential time Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the grandparents supervising all contact. Counsel said the grandparents would meet the mother at school-bus drop-off and facilitate transportation to extracurricular activities. "They are gonna be eyes on and ears on. They will not he will not have alone time with his daughter during this period of time," counsel stated on the record.
The judge cautioned the supervising grandparents that by agreeing to supervise they were submitting themselves to the court's jurisdiction and could be held in contempt for violations. The court emphasized the objective of slowly normalizing the child's relationship with her father while protecting the child's safety and welfare. "You're now gonna be a party, so to speak, to this case at least as to, supervising his visitation," the judge told the grandparents, and later approved the order and directed counsel to prepare the written document for signature.
The order was approved on the record; the transcript shows attorneys agreed to prepare and exchange the final paperwork. The court recorded the child's age as 7 and noted details would be adjusted if extracurricular events required schedule changes.
