Child Custody Evaluation and Psychological Evaluation

I am wondering if anyone here has had any experience with a Child Custody Evaluation or a Psychological Report? If so, would you recommend it? Not recommend it? My soon-to-be-ex-husband is volatile and emotionally abusive. He never became physical, but we were together for a VERY short time. Since the separation, he has harassed and frightened my family. I am wondering if a custody evaluation or pysch. eval. would help / hurt my case. Thanks!

[Eyeopener]

Recently it's dawned on parents and attorneys alike that while many, many evaluations have been ordered, no one, in 30 plus years, had done a follow-up to determine whether they're in any way reliable.

However, judges continue using family court as a full employment act for attorneys, evaluators, therapists, and supervised monitors.

Don'r do it. There are so may father's rights psychologists out there, that many battered mothers have had their children taken away totally. SO many there is a national conference every year on the subject. PBS did a special on the problem almost two years ago. Called "Breaking the Silence - Children's Stories." It can be found on the internet. If left to the courts and custody evaluators, mothers would be banished from the planet, don't do it and don't suggest it.

Very Lonely Mom

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"Breaking The Silence" was a very controversial documentary, and has been widely discredited as biased and one-sided.
Stating that any part of our family courts is biased towards men is about as credible as complaining that our nation is biased against white Christian males.
Personally, unless you think that your psych eval might reveal something that could be used against you, I do not see how requesting psych evals would hurt your case. Our family court judges and magistrates love to take the easy way out, and even they can avoid considering actual facts and testimony in favor of simply following the results of a psych eval, they probably would.

Yeah, all by males. Duh.


Misogyny is entrenched at the Supreme Court, which in 2005 ruled the police don't have to enforce restraining orders.

[Aanubis]

My fiance is going through a very similar circumstance. He is emotionally abusive and does things like make sudden movements towards her as if he is going to strike but doesn't actually hit her. He will ignore her phone calls when she tries to call her child. He has been telling her that she better tell their child that she had an affair. Telling an 8 year old child something like that is absolutely idiotic. He threatens her that if she doesn't tell their child, he will do everything to stop her from travelling. If she tells her child this, he will let her travel. I think he is just trying to turn the child against his mother. Regardless of if its true or not (and its not btw), a child does not need to be put in this kind of position.

I wish you good luck. Hopefully, if you get a psych eval on him you can share how the process went and if it helped your case. We are thinking of doing the same thing (forensic psychologist) so it would be helpful to know.

Aan

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah, all by males. Duh.


Misogyny is entrenched at the Supreme Court, which in 2005 ruled the police don't have to enforce restraining orders.

Yeah. Males. I mean, who the heck trusts 50% of the population. And jeez, our courts have become so male-centric that fathers get custody, like, nearly 5% of the time these days. Outrageous! Where will it end; equal rights for men? What is this country coming to!

Thats just crazy talk Tbyte =P

Mothers generally get custody in unlitigated cases. Meaning the father has left for a variety of reasons. However, in litigated custody cases, judges typically put mothers through the ringer - such as this Orange County mother.

Judicial Transparency Now

Media is absolutely blowing it. It's media that is keeping the reality of family court from the public.

Mainstream Misses

So consider reading the horrible material at FamilyLawCourts.com.

Judges, and media not doing their job is the problem.

[loved08]

haha t. i understand where you're upset & coming from. but the reason that only 5% of the time do men get custody is bc only 10% of the time do men care to do so. & 1/2 of that time (the other 5% funny man) those men are only going for custody out of spite..which obviously isn't good for the children. sooo therefore most of the time women get cust. there are a LOT of men who say they care and just "don't know what to do" but they don't try. they don't even look up case studies, state or federal laws, etc. it's ridiculous. sorry. if you "cared" so much; you'd go to court. stand up. do it for your CHILD. not yourself. not for her. good luck.