Children, courts, and custody : interdisciplinary models for divorcing families

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Author:

Schepard, Andrew, 1948-

ISBN:

9780521822015

9780521529303

Personal Author:

Schepard, Andrew, 1948-

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

I. Overview -- II. Kramer vs. Kramer Revisited: The Sole Custody/Adversary System Paradigm -- III. Divorce, Children, and Courts: An Empirical Perspective -- IV. Parents Are Forever I: Joint Custody and Parenting Plans -- V. Parents Are Forever II: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation -- VI. Parents Are Forever III: Court-Affiliated Educational Programs -- VII. Contrasting Child Custody Court Paradigms: New York and California -- VIII. Family Violence -- IX. Differentiated Case Management -- X. Lawyers for Parents -- XI. The Voice of the Child, the Lawyer for the Child, and Child Alienation -- XII. Neutral Mental Health Evaluators -- XIII. The "Best Interests" Test and Its Presumption-Based Competitors -- XIV. Consolidating the New Paradigm: The Future of the Child Custody Court.

Abstract:

"Andrew Schepard analyzes the principal challenges facing the child custody court of today: ensuring the safety of parents and children from violence and providing access to justice and services. He examines how the roles of key courtroom players - judges, lawyers for both parents and children, and mental health professionals - must change to promote the best interests of children." "The book concludes with an agenda for reform of the child custody court based on interdisciplinary collaboration that can help courts meet the needs of 21st century parents and children."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Custody of children -- United States.

Divorce mediation -- United States.

Children of divorced parents -- United States -- Psychology.

Divorced parents -- United States -- Psychology.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003053224.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam032/2003053224.html

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Courts today seek to involve both parents in a child's life rather than choosing between them. Mediation and education have replaced the courtroom as the primary forum for resolving parental disputes. This book provides an overview of these trends in law, conflict resolution and mental health and the empirical research that supports them. It analyzes the principle challenges facing the child custody court of today: assuring the safety of parents and children from violence and providing access to justice and services. It examines how the roles of key courtroom players - judges, lawyers for both parents and children and mental health professionals - must change to promote the best interests of children. The book concludes with an agenda for reform of the child custody court based on interdisciplinary collaboration that can help courts meet the needs of twenty-first century parents and children.