Allen, Farrow Agree to Visits With Son, Girl’s Therapy : Custody: Out-of-court agreement lets filmmaker see Satchel twice a week and restores psychological treatment for Dylan.

Woody Allen and Mia Farrow reached agreement on visitation rights, canceling a full-fledged court hearing during which both combatants in their bitter child custody battle could have been questioned, lawyers said Tuesday.

Under terms worked out by their counsels, the filmmaker will be able to see his and Farrow’s biological son, Satchel, 5, twice a week. Also, Farrow agreed to restore therapy for their 7-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan, who has claimed that she was molested by Allen at Farrow’s Connecticut home last August.

Allen temporarily withdrew his demand that he be allowed supervised visits with Dylan.

“I have agreed not to press for visitation with my daughter at the present time as part of an agreement wherein her mother will then allow her to have a therapist,” Allen said in a statement.

“As much as I miss my little girl, I feel it’s overwhelmingly in her best interests that she be allowed to get the psychological help her mother has withheld from her since Miss Farrow fired Dylan’s therapist in August. As part of this agreement, I will also have visitation with my son, Satchel, and I am incredibly delighted over that.”

“It is something on an interim basis. It obviates a protracted visitation hearing,” Harvey Sladkus, one of Allen’s lawyers, said of the agreement.

Connecticut authorities are not expected to rule on Dylan’s allegations of sexual abuse for several weeks, and the agreement between Farrow and Allen, reached out of court, averted what surely would have been one of the most publicized hearings in recent years.

State Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk had ordered the hearing, which lawyers said would have amounted to a mini-trial stretching over perhaps five days, in an effort to sort through a thicket of charges and countercharges by Farrow and Allen. Both sides were preparing to call witnesses.

“Dylan is going to get therapy as Mr. Allen wanted. We are not going to go to trial and Miss Farrow is going to elect a therapist to treat Dylan, subject to Mr. Allen’s input,” Sladkus said.

The lawyer said Allen’s Monday and Thursday visits with his son, Satchel, would be supervised, and as a stipulation of the agreement no photographs of the child taken by the filmmaker or Farrow can be given to the media. In addition, Farrow cannot have contact with Satchel while Allen is present.

In return, Allen withdrew his demand that he be allowed supervised visits with Dylan--a point his lawyers had pressed hard during arguments before Wilk on Jan. 12.

During that court session, a lawyer for Farrow testified that Dylan had told Connecticut investigators that she had seen Allen having sex with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, 21, one of Farrow’s adopted daughters from her former marriage to conductor Andre Previn.

Allen, 57, and Soon-Yi have said they were lovers. The lawyer, Eleanor Alter, also charged that Dylan told investigators that Allen once pushed her face into a plate of hot spaghetti.

Allen vehemently denied both accusations, accusing Farrow of brainwashing Dylan while refusing her psychiatric help.

Allen is seeking custody of Dylan, Satchel and Moses, 14, another child he and Farrow adopted.