How Is a Visitation Ruling Enforced in Jordan When Refused?

The Jordanian Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019 regulates the enforcement of visitation and overnight rulings within the custody provisions, giving such rulings enforceable force once issued. Article 182 provides that the court may set or modify the time and place of overnight stays, visitation, hosting, and accompaniment, and allows the parties to the ruling to enforce it before the execution judge.

Article 183 addresses a custodian's refusal to enable the entitled person's visitation, overnight stay, or accompaniment: on application, the trial judge may temporarily forfeit custody and transfer it to the next entitled person for a fixed period, and it obliges whoever the right transfers to to comply with the visitation and overnight ruling as one issued against them.

The legal basis for enforcing a visitation ruling thus rests on Articles 182 and 183: the matter is put before the execution judge, and a custodian's repeated refusal is a ground for temporarily forfeiting custody.

Assessing the appropriate means of enforcement and whether its grounds exist remains within the court's competence on the facts of each case, with regard to the child's best interest.

This is a general explanation based on Jordanian Personal Status Law and does not replace advice from a qualified lawyer in a specific dispute.