-Most parents who live apart negotiate custody arrangements on their own or with the help of lawyers, mediators, or other professionals. However, psychologists and other mental health professionals increasingly have become involved in evaluating children and families in custody disputes, because of the large number of separated, divorced, and never-married parents and the substantial conflict t...

Custodial rulings are high in prevalence, yet low in standardized criteria necessary in preventing biased decisions. Because various legal decision-makers inform custodial decisions, it is crucial to examine individual difference predictors of such decisions. Indeed, research has revealed that factors related to parents involved in custodial disputes (gender, social adjustment, and social skill...

In the international debates on custody law reform and in individual custody decisions in families and in courts worldwide, social science research is often misused and abused. In this article I describe the process by which data can become distorted in ways that steer policymakers, family court personnel, and parents off course in regard to child custody decisions. I illustrate this process wi...

Policies governing divorce and parenting, such as child support orders and enforcement, child custody regulations, and marital dissolution requirements, can have a large impact on the welfare of parents and children. Recent research has produced evidence on the responses of divorce rates to unilateral divorce laws and child support enforcement. We argue that in order to assess the child welfare...

The authors present characteristics of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) proposed by Gardner as well as data, which may help to differentiate that syndrome with real psychological, physical and sexual abuse. The consequences of Gardner Syndrome for legal decisions in the court cases of child custody and the critique of this syndrome in forensic and psychiatric literature are also discussed, an...

Research is lacking on differing perspectives regarding custody cases involving domestic violence (DV). In a survey of judges, legal aid attorneys, private attorneys, DV program workers, and child custody evaluators (n = 1,187), judges, private attorneys, and evaluators were more likely to believe that mothers make false DV allegations and alienate their children. In response to a vignette, eva...


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Emery otto, and O'Donohue (2005) diseussed the foundations of non-attachment-related child custody evaluations • (CCEs) and concluded that they had a limited scientific basis. Other authors (e.g., Isaacs, George, & Marvin 2009) have suggested the possibility of using attaehment theory and attachment measures for CCE purposes Thi¡ pape reviews cnt.c.sms of attaehment theory and research and disc...