Visitation

Visitation may refer to:

In law

• Contact (law) or visitation, in US law, the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children
• Visitation, in English law, an inquiry into a university or charitable institution, by its founder or another appointed person
• Canonical visitation, an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under Catholic canon law
• Hospital visitation rights, which may be limited to family and legal spouses; an issue in the fight for LGBT rights in the United States
• Prison visitation rights, the rules and conditions under which prisoners may have visitors

In arts and entertainment

• Visitation (Joe McPhee album), a 1985 album by Joe McPhee
• Visitation (Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell album), a 1994 album by Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell
• The Visitation (book), a 1999 contemporary Christian novel by Frank Peretti
• The Visitation (Doctor Who), a 1982 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
• The Visitation (film), a 2006 film based upon the above book

In religion

• Visitation (Christianity), a liturgical feast day commemorating the visit of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth
• Canonical visitation, an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under (Catholic) canon law
• Funeral visitation, a custom where a mourner visits the deceased's family and views the body
• Tablet of Visitation, or Ziyarat, specific prayers in Islam and the Bahá'í faith, said while visiting shrines
• Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, also called Visitandines or Salesian Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order for women

Other uses

• Alien visitation, an experience of an encounter between an extraterrestrial life form and a human
• Heraldic visitation, a tour of inspection by a herald (or other officer-of-arms) to regulate and register coats of arms, and to record pedigrees
• Supernatural visitation, an experience of presence or communication between the recently deceased and their spouse or progeny