This is a request to the court for help in enforcing a placement order. After you submit a properly filed petition, the court schedules a hearing. The court also may appoint an attorney (guardian ad litem) to investigate and represent the best interests of your children. At the hearing, you and the other parent ​(and the guardian ad litem, if the court appointed one) present evidence to support your positions.

After hearing the evidence, the court might find that the other parent, without good reason, intentionally denied or interfered with your court-ordered time with your children. In that case, the court must give you additional placement to make up for the missed time. Also, the court must award you a reasonable amount of costs and attorney fees.

As the court deems necessary, it also may: (1) make a more specific placement schedule; (2) find the other parent in contempt; or (3) issue an injunction ordering the other parent to follow the placement schedule or be subject to fines or imprisonment.