Does visitation end at 18?

Does the stated visitation end when the child turns 18 or graduates high school? There is no wording on this in my CO or DH's CO. In our state CS goes to 21 but I can't find any guidelines on the visitation. Since skids are PASed out and only come because they are made to I'm wondering how much longer that will be. I do think they will just stop coming soon since DH has now left it up to them but I was wondering what is the legal part of it.

If anyone has experience or knows anything about any laws regarding this, I would appreciate the information.

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I think unless otherwise

I think unless otherwise written in the CO, (required) visitation would end at 18. How old are your skids? I know that once my skids turned about 13 or so, visitation dropped off greatly. They had things they wanted to do with friends on weekends, and I totally get that (DH not so much) I remember when I was a kid, I had a step brother and step sister who used to come every weekend, until we all got to be roughly that age, and then they started coming less and then eventually stopped coming all together.

I know a lot of people want to blame BMs (and I'm sure they DO play a part) but I think it's more just an independence thing. Most "normal" kids that age just want to do things with their friends.. not go spend the weekend at dad's