This inability to consider alternative hypotheses is a significant flaw in many poorly
done child custody evaluations.
There are professionals that operate solely within the realm of family law or child custody law, professionals who
do child custody evaluations (CFI / PRE), professional mental health therapists, judges and courts, advocates and special masters and mediators.
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.
Moreover, having extensive experience
doing child custody evaluations or parenting coordinations is itself fairly meaningless.
Not exact matches
Child Protective Services could perform an
evaluation to have a better understanding of what it would mean if I
did take
custody, in terms of the
children's issues and what they would need going forward.
Child custody evaluations apply — or more accurately, don't apply — principles and constructs from professional psychology in completely haphazard, random, and idiosyncratic ways based on the biases and personal attitudes of the evaluator, and there is absolutely no inter-rater reliability to the conclusions and recommendations reached by the child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same
Child custody evaluations apply — or more accurately, don't apply — principles and constructs from professional psychology in completely haphazard, random, and idiosyncratic ways based on the biases and personal attitudes of the evaluator, and there is absolutely no inter-rater reliability to the conclusions and recommendations reached by the
child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same
child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same data.
I have
done child custody and
child protection
evaluations for about twenty years... I work as a Parenting Coordinator... I teach Law Students in the..., helping insure that the they learn what is and is not a good court - ordered
evaluation.
Individual Adult Psychometric Testing and
Child Custody Evaluations: If the Shoe Doesn't Fit, Don't Wear It.
Most divorcing parents don't have to worry about
child custody evaluations.
Lawyer Nancy Erickson said the OPD's refusal shows that incompetent or corrupt psychologists «can continue to make money by
doing custody evaluations that could end up misleading the courts and harming
children and their families.»
Richard Gardner, MD, in his book Family
Evaluations in
Child Custody Disputes (1981), provides this explanation of the importance of grandparents to grandchildren: «Although parents will on occasion idealize their
children, grandparents are much more likely to
do so.
A CNA (
custody neutral assessment) is a program used in some NJ counties (such as Burlington) in which a family therapist meets with both parties (and sometimes the
children, depending on their age) for one extended session and
does an abbreviated
evaluation of what parenting plan would be in the
children's best interest, in that evaluator's opinion, based on the one - session meeting.
Custody Evaluations - What are they, what you need to look out for and how to combat bad evaluations Custody Agreements - Clauses you need to avoid conflict and not have to go back to court over and over Child Support - Learn how different states handle child support and what you can do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation
Custody Evaluations - What are they, what you need to look out for and how to combat bad evaluations Custody Agreements - Clauses you need to avoid conflict and not have to go back to court over and over Child Support - Learn how different states handle child support and what you can do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitat
Evaluations - What are they, what you need to look out for and how to combat bad
evaluations Custody Agreements - Clauses you need to avoid conflict and not have to go back to court over and over Child Support - Learn how different states handle child support and what you can do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitat
evaluations Custody Agreements - Clauses you need to avoid conflict and not have to go back to court over and over Child Support - Learn how different states handle child support and what you can do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation
Custody Agreements - Clauses you need to avoid conflict and not have to go back to court over and over
Child Support - Learn how different states handle child support and what you can do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation ri
Child Support - Learn how different states handle
child support and what you can do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation ri
child support and what you can
do to not be taken advantage of Restraining Orders - How to avoid them and deal with an unexpected restraining order False Allegations - Learn how to avoid false allegations and protect yourself when accused Parental Alienation - Recognize the signs and learn how to combat alienation Co-Parenting - Learn about co-parenting and if it will be possible in your situation Parallel Parenting - Parallel parenting can be implemented in high conflict
custody situations Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation
custody situations
Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation ri
Child Protective Services - Learn your rights when CPS shows up on your doorstep Domestic Violence - Allegations of domestic violence is often used in
custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation
custody cases, learn how to protect yourself Contempt of Court - Denied visitation rights?
Even though you may oppose the
child custody evaluation it is important to cooperate so that the evaluator
does not get the wrong impression.
Many co-parents
do not fully understand what a
child custody evaluation is.
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Child custody evaluations are
done by court appointment only.
Please note that the inclusion of any individual on the below list
does not necessarily indicate the existence of any licensing or other violation, but only that we obtained or have been made aware of information of interest relevant to the subject matter of
child custody evaluations or other issues bearing upon mental health practitioners and the functioning of the family court system.
Instead, the ideal mental health professional for
doing a
custody evaluation has significant training in the area of
child development, with particular understanding of the stages of development and how they interact with the positive and negative attributes of each parent.