Animating two figures with joints in sync

phoena

I have tried to search for this in just about every way I have thought to phrase it and google and bing are both terrible at just picking keywords. 

 

I want to animate two characters that for one scene one character is picking the other up by hand.  So character A grabs character B's hand and pulls up.  This lifts character B up.  Is there a way to set within a keyframe window the two figures hands being fixed to each other so that as one figure moves the other moves with it.  And then after that keyframe window they are no long tied to each other. 

Or do I have to move each one, one at a time and reiterate to avoid clipping?

cridgit

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