New York Consolidated Laws, Family Court Act - FCT § 447. Order of visitation

(a) In the absence of an order of custody or of visitation entered by the supreme court, the court may make an order of custody or of visitation, in accordance with subdivision one of section two hundred forty of the domestic relations law, requiring one parent to permit the other to visit the children at stated periods without an order of protection, even where the parents are divorced and the support order is for a child only.

(b) Any order of the family court under this section shall terminate when the supreme court makes an order of custody or of visitation concerning the children, unless the supreme court continues the order of the family court.