Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789035332 ISBN 13: 9780789035332

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Find out how evaluators, mediators, and judges deal with the issues of relocation in divorced families

In the past, the relocation of a parent or child in custody cases was rarely a problem for divorced families there was little conflict and little need for court intervention. But with the growth of shared custody, more fathers involved in parenting after divorce, and an increase in litigation between conflicted parents, relocation has become a complex issue that’s difficult for evaluators, judges, and public policymakers to resolve. Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases offers a firsthand look at how evaluators investigate, predict, and make recommendations; how judges reach decisions based on those recommendations; and how individual states deal with relocation cases.

Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases examines how evaluators, mediators, and judges can best facilitate an environment where a child has an ongoing relationship with two parents, regardless of where each parent lives. This unique book looks at how the landscape in relocation cases has changed since the California Supreme Court’s landmark 2004 ruling in the LaMusga move-away case, examining relevant topics, including individual state statutes on relocation; a survey of courts in the United States; the functions of an evaluator; how a judge analyzes data before reaching a decision; parental conflict; domestic violence; change of circumstances; primary residence; and the process of developing parenting plans.

Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases examines:

• whether negative outcomes of parental relocation after divorce were a result of pre-existing conflict and domestic violence
  
• whether the best interests of the child is an acceptable standard in relocation cases
  
• investigative models for evaluators
  
• for the move and against the move biases and how to reduce them
  
• a format for analyzing evidence in relocation cases
  
• the risks and benefits of presumptions in family law matters
  
• and much more

Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases is an essential resource for evaluators, mediators, judges, caseworkers, child psychologists, family therapists, and child advocates.

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Review:

"A VERY VALUABLE COLLECTION of papers that address the complications of relocation

issues. . . . The reader will find the kind of comprehensive multidisciplinary

thinking that is necessary to apply the research and consider appropriate factors

for child custody assessment and decision-making in these complex cases." -- Robin M. Deutsch, PhD, Children and the Law Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

"MAKES A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION to the discussion by suggesting ways in which, by

working together, legislatures, courts, and custody evaluators can develop an approach to relocation decision making that will better serve the needs of the children on whose behalf they act. -- Kay P. Kindred, JD, Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"THE BEST VOLUME AVAILABLE DEALING WITH THIS VITALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC. Philip Stahl

and Leslie Drozd have assembled AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE to the maze of legal and

psychological issues that occur in disputes over relocation for evaluators,

therapists, lawyers, and other professionals involved in these cases. -- Jay Lebow, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Professor of Psychology, The Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University

A VERY VALUABLE COLLECTION of papers that address the complications of relocation issues. . . . The reader will find the kind of comprehensive multidisciplinary thinking that is necessary to apply the research and consider appropriate factors for child custody assessment and decision-making in these complex cases -- Robin M. Deutsch, PhD, Children and the Law Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

MAKES A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION to the discussion by suggesting ways in which, by working together, legislatures, courts, and custody evaluators can develop an approach to relocation decision making that will better serve the needs of the children on whose behalf they act. -- Kay P. Kindred, JD, Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

THE BEST VOLUME AVAILABLE DEALING WITH THIS VITALLY IMPORTANT TOPIC. Philip Stahl and Leslie Drozd have assembled AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE to the maze of legal and psychological issues that occur in disputes over relocation for evaluators, therapists, lawyers, and other professionals involved in these cases -- Jay Lebow, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Professor of Psychology, The Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0789035332
• ISBN 13: 9780789035332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Philip M. Stahl, Leslie M. Drozd