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- Title
MAKING A PLACE AT THE TABLE:.
- Authors
Kisthardt, Mary Kay; Fines, Barbara Glesner
- Abstract
This response to Timothy Tippins and Jeffrey Wittmann's article“Empirical and Ethical Problems with Custody Recommendations: A Call for Clinical Humility and Judicial Vigilance” builds upon the authors’ conclusions that custody evaluations cannot and should not be a substitute for the socio-legal judgment of the best interests of the child. Recognizing that clinical humility and judicial vigilance may not be sufficient to restrain the misuse of psychological evaluation, we offer for consideration three structural changes that would provide for a more appropriate use of the skills and talents custody evaluators bring to legal decisions. We suggest using custody evaluators in the less adversarial setting of preparing parenting plans, revising the procedures by which custody evaluations are elicited in litigation, and adopting the approximation standard for child custody determinations.
- Subjects
CUSTODY of children; DIVORCE mediation; ETHICS; PARENT-child legal relationship; DIVORCED parents
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 2, p229
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1744-1617.2005.00021.x