Opinion ID: 1263508
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Issue IV: Termination of Overnight Visitation

Text: Father contends that the family court erred in terminating his overnight visitation for failing to meet the videotaping requirements mandated by the family court. We agree, due to the jurisdictional bar of Rule 205 and Rule 225, SCACR. The final divorce order set very specific parameters for Father's visitation. Father appealed the portion of the final order to the Court of Appeals concerning summer and holiday visitation. Thus, the family court would not have jurisdiction to modify terms of visitation because the appellate court would have exclusive jurisdiction over the matter on appeal. [6] The family court modified Father's visitation while the first appeal was pending. By first requiring Father to videotape the administration of medicine as a condition of his visitation, and then by suspending Father's overnight visitation for failure to comply with the videotaping conditions, the family court violated our appellate court rules by issuing orders that were affected by a matter on appeal. Therefore, the order that suspended overnight visitation was void for lack of jurisdiction.