Disputed child custody is a significant life stressor for both adults and children. Recent efforts have been made to develop a model for family mediation and subsequent clinical strategies that can attempt to address the stressors involved in divorce and perhaps resolve, through mediation, the posttrauma stress experienced by both spouses and children. Reviewed is the literature on the impact o...

Greater training and specialization in working with children exposed to domestic violence has resulted in new policies, interagency protocols, and legislation in many states. This paper examines court-related responses in criminal, child protection, and family court custody proceedings, which highlight legislative changes and resulting systemic change. Although this legislation originated with ...

The article is devoted to the main complicated aspects that take place in national judicial practice resolving disputes between separated parents regarding determination of residence their minor child(ren). author reiterates necessity use more flexible approaches order resolve about determining a child, improve such kind by courts, borders which are currently limited only one variant - child wi...

I develop a model of marriage in which spouses decide on investments in child quality during marriage, and on the allocation of child custody should they divorce. The custodial allocation determines the share of the marital surplus each spouse appropriates, which in turn influences spouses’ investment incentives. The custodial allocation therefore has both distributional and efficiency conseque...

This study attempts to fill a gap in the literature by assessing the perspectives of attorneys regarding child custody evaluations completed by mental health professionals. Fifty-nine attorneys completed an anonymous survey designed to ascertain their opinions about: (1) what factors prompt a custody evaluation, (2) expectations regarding evaluation procedures, (3) the utility of the resultant ...

OBJECTIVE This study explored whether parents treated in public mental health settings perceived that they might lose child custody or visitation if they were not adherent to treatment. METHODS Interview data were gathered from 1,011 adult outpatients from five community mental health centers located in five states in different U.S. regions. RESULTS Among parents with children younger than ...

More than half the states have laws requiring courts to consider domestic violence when making child custody and visitation awards. These standards are an improvement over the view that violence between parents is irrelevant to child custody and visitation, but they still leave a great deal of discretion to the court. Judicial bias and misconceptions about domestic violence and battered women m...

The use of psychotropic medications in youth with emotional disturbances in state custody is increasing and presents unique challenges concerning consent and oversight. We examine various means that state child welfare agencies use to provide consent for and oversight of psychotropic medications for children in state custody and describe benefits of a consent process that provides for expert co...