Sentences with phrase «appoint evaluators»

The courts should use more critical thinking about the purpose of involving mental health professionals in a case and not automatically appoint evaluators just because it is a disputed custody case.

A court - appointed evaluator in 2013 found that State Sen. Tom Croci, who chairs the Senate Ethics Committee, had «taken advantage» of his elderly aunt for his own financial benefit and recommended that the court reject Croci's attempt to control her assets.

A court - appointed evaluator will assess whether the person is, in fact, an addict and evaluate how the addiction could affect the children.

Even supposedly neutral court - appointed evaluators can develop a quick dislike for one parent and clear preference for the other parent.

When they were seven, five and four respectively, they told the judge, court appointed evaluator, their attorney and the child protective caseworker that their father was abusing them physically and the girls sexually.

Not exact matches

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.

We will begin conversations with a small number of the most promising proposals, with a view to jointly developing a project and evaluation plan with the independent evaluator that will be appointed by the EEF.

The evaluator appointed by the federal court agreed with ASPCA experts; only two of the dogs were euthanized, one for illness and one for aggression.

An Established Evaluator is invited by the Regional Club's choice (just as you would with any judge) This evaluator will direct the actual testing as well as coordinate the preliminary planning arrangements with the Chairman appointed by the sponsorEvaluator is invited by the Regional Club's choice (just as you would with any judge) This evaluator will direct the actual testing as well as coordinate the preliminary planning arrangements with the Chairman appointed by the sponsorevaluator will direct the actual testing as well as coordinate the preliminary planning arrangements with the Chairman appointed by the sponsoring club.

He is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association and has been appointed by the New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County, to serve as a neutral evaluator to help parties reach an amicable settlement.

When a Motion for Modification of Child Custody or Parenting Time is made by a parent of a minor child or children, and if that motion is contested by the other parent, courts will most often appoint a custody evaluator at the first hearing.

Sometimes the court appoints a «guardian ad litem» — a lawyer who represents the children's interests — instead of a custody evaluator, but the process is very much the same either way.

Within 21 days of being appointed, the ICBC evaluator or your evaluator must exchange written reports.

You must appoint an «evaluator» to act on your behalf within 21 days of sending your letter to ICBC and advise ICBC of your evaluator's name, address and telephone number.

If your evaluator and the ICBC evaluator can not come to an agreement on an award within the 45 day time limit then you may apply to appoint an arbitrator who will then decide the matter after a review of the written reports of the two evaluators.

Within 45 days of being appointed as an evaluator, the ICBC evaluator and your evaluator must attempt to agree on an award and submit the agreed upon award in writing to ICBC or notify ICBC in writing that an agreement was not made.

Dr. Molyn is currently an appointed Qualified Medical Evaluator for the State of California.

Requests for appointment of Minor's Counsel are usually made by court - appointed mediators or evaluators, either parent or even the court itself.

The Court often appoints a custody evaluator and / or a Guardian Ad Litem to help determine what is, in fact, in the best interests of the child.

If mediation is not successful, the court may then appoint a custody evaluator as well as an individual to represent the child's interests - a guardian ad litem, child representative or attorney - in order to assist the court in making a custody determination.

You should cooperate in every way with the ordered evaluation, and in fact may want to obtain information about the potential evaluators in your area to ensure the best one for your situation is appointed by the court.

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The parties agree to utilize neutral appraisers and evaluators where appropriate and to avoid subjecting their children to court - appointed forensics.

King County has the options of Family Court Services, CASA (Court appointed special advocates), Guardian ad litems, or private parenting evaluators (who are often either attorneys or mental health professionals).

If the parents are not able to come to an agreement as to custody, the court may appoint a custody evaluator, a psychologist who will conduct psychological evaluations of the parents, possibly also of the children depending on their ages, meet with the parents and the children, and who will write an evaluation report with a recommendation.

-- In an action for dissolution of marriage or for the creation, approval, or modification of a parenting plan, if the court finds it is in the best interest of the child, the court may appoint a guardian ad litem to act as next friend of the child, investigator or evaluator, not as attorney or advocate.

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This means that he does not advocate for, write letters in support of, or testify on behalf of one parent, and that all of his divorce - related roles are conducted within a strictly confidential format and protected from attorney subpoenas and disclosure to court - appointed custody evaluators and other personnel in Family Court.

In addition, Brenda purchased and permitted the boys to install key - locks on their bedroom doors in order that the boys could avoid meals and other contact with Philip during those times he was in charge... [C] ourt - appointed custody evaluator, psychologist Dr. Wayne Graves... observed: «[M] other's psychological status is so dysfunctional that I do not see any remediation possible within any short term time frame as within several years of intense psychological assistance.

«Dr. Jordan, the court - appointed psychologist / custody evaluator, was qualified as an expert in the field of clinical psychology....

«The district court found that, although [court - appointed custody evaluator Mindy] Mitnick opined that the children's poor relationship with appellant was due to respondent's attempts to alienate the children from appellant, the district court had listened to tapes made by appellant of parenting exchanges and phone conversations and was not convinced that alienation was occur - ring....

«[Court - appointed psychologist Mindy] Mitnick stated in her evaluation: [Mother's] pattern of making vague reports of abuse and neglect and then denying responsibility for the subsequent Child Protection investigations is of much concern to the evaluator.

«Dr. J. Burke Mealy interviewed the parties and Adam as a court appointed Custody Evaluator.

No, a Parenting Coordinator should not be appointed, or accept a Parenting Coordinator appointment if they have been involved in a case as a guardian ad litem, custody evaluator, therapist, or one parent's attorney.

In addition to psychological assessment and counseling for the family, the mental health professional would also take on an educational role, and / or parenting coordinator role, when needed, as well as being the court - appointed custody evaluator.

May 2011: Pobal appoints Dr. Kieran McKeown, Mr. Trutz Haase and Professor Jay Belsky as the Evaluator Team for NEYAI.

Read «Reevaluating the Evaluators» before you permit any child custody evaluator, guardian ad litem, parenting coordinator or mental health professional to be appointed in your child custody case!!

281 (2006); Margaret K. Dore, Court Appointed Parenting Evaluators and Guardians Ad Litem: Practical Realities and an Argument for Abolition, 18 Div.

This article discusses the minimum disclosures every child custody evaluator (also known as «parenting evaluator» or «best interests» guardian ad litem or GAL)[1], or parenting coordinator (herein called a «mental health professional» or «MHP»)[2a] should be required to make, responding satisfactorily and in full, before being appointed in any family law case to do a child custody evaluation — in fact before doing anything beyond answering a list of limited, detailed, specific, and narrowly - crafted questions the answers to which are directly within the MHP's field of proved expertise.

[ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]:»... We custody evaluators are appointed to do our own work, at least in interviewing and evaluating... I would think that part of my job would be to generate my OWN follow - up questions... don't know how any computerized questionnaire can do that... also a little troubled by the intent that evaluators «cut and paste»... interpretive language of any kind... into their reports... what «follow up» questions will pop up based on the parent's responses?

Unfortunately, sometimes there is no choice when a party is confronted with a Bad Custody Evaluation but to hire an uber - custody evaluator to review the process and procedures used by the court - appointed custody evaluator, albeit we recognize that this is tantamount to rewarding the psych industry with yet more business.

A few years later, this same evaluator was appointed to resolve any disputes in a joint custody arrangement that another abused mother had been pressured to accept.

Ms. Carton has also been appointed by the Westchester County and Putnam County Supreme and Surrogate's Courts as referee, guardian, guardian ad litem, and court evaluator.

It featured information about the CAFÉ (Court Appointed Forensic Evaluators) program that originated in Denton County.

A GAL is appointed by the court to to represent the child's best interest during a divorce, and a parenting evaluator plays a related role, investigating the parenting situation and the child and sometimes performing psychological tests to evaluate a child's mental state.