Archive for: May 2009

A parent facing the prospect of divorce and a child custody dispute will almost certainly find a reference to something called the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. It sounds simple enough and the mere use of the term “uniform” may …

This is a link to an article that focuses on tort remedies that are available to parents when other parents or third parties interfere with custodial or visitation rights.

The article begins with a discussion of the remedy that …

The impact of child custody law’s paradigm shift to the gender-neutral best interests of the child standard in the 1970s almost defies description. Rather than basing custody decisions on gender- or status-based presumptions, judges were suddenly charged with making individualized …

This Child Custody Checklist is provided courtesy of Child Custody Library

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Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child Custody Evaluations

“The current judicial system attempts to find justice in a fundamentally unjust situation. Children of divorce wants their …

AP Derdeyn

The author reviews the historical background of interparental child custody disputes. The father’s superior right to custody in the nineteenth century continued the English common law tradition, but in the twentieth century the mother’s claim became superior to …

Erika M. Waller, MA and Anasseril E. Daniel, MD

Ms. Waller is Clinical and Research Assistant and Dr. Daniel is Director, Forensic Psychiatric Services, Custody Evaluation Research Center, Columbia, MO. Address correspondence to: Erika M. Waller, MA, Custody Evaluation Research Center, …