Section 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.