With your 50B Order, you can request temporary custody of your children.  Though the court's form does not have a section regarding temporary visitation for your abuser, you should remember to ask your attorney to request a visitation plan or ask the judge to set up some form of temporary visitation schedule in the 50B Order if the abuser is the father of your children.  It is better to have some safe visitation ordered now than to risk unsafe visitation or refusing the abuser/father all visitation and risk his taking you back to court in a custody case.  There are several options for safe visitation, including supervised visitation (where some responsible adult or agency supervises), a third-party exchange (where you choose some person who will be available for you to drop the children off with them until the abuser arrives for his visitation), a safe-place exchange (where you and the abuser meet in a safe place to exchange the children, usually the police department), or therapeutic visitation (where the children and the abuser see each other only in therapy together).    Remember, your goal is never to be alone with the abuser during the exchange of the children for any reason-it is extremely dangerous!  In your Order, always make sure you or your attorney request specific times and days for the visitation.  That way, if the abuser violates does not abide by those dates and times, you can ask the Court to get your children back and to hold him or her in contempt for violating the Order.