Visitation can mean several things:

• In the United States, visitation is the legal term for the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children: see contact.

• In English history, a visitation was an official visit, usually for purposes of inspection, and the record of that visit. Heraldic visitations were made to establish the right of a person to bear arms, and are used today in genealogical research. These visits are usually titled according to the year they were made (e.g. Visitation of 1345), and the genealogical information contained in them is often erroneous.

• The Visitation is a Christian feast day (31 May, previously 2 July) commemorating the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke.

• In the United States and Canada, a visitation is a funeral custom where a mourner visits the deceased person's family and views the body lying in the casket, either at a funeral home or church.

• Visitation is an experience of presence or communication between the recently deceased and their spouse or progeny. Such experiences are deemed normative and not pathological according to the DSM IV (Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association).

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Further reading

• All of Dr. Lowenstein's publications on the PAS