Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide

Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide
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Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide
Philip M. Stahl
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Release Date: 1994-08-15

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"A must-have book on custody evaluations. . . . Philip Michael Stahl has done family law attorneys a great service by writing Conducting Child Custody Evaluations. . . . Dr. Stahl's book is a solid addition to the literature. It provides family law attorneys with the evaluator's perspective on the process, its purpose, and structure. Packed with examples that illustrate the author's points, the book is quite readable. . . . If you do custody work, this book is a must. You will find yourself using it continually as a resource and to share information with your clients. Dr. Stahl writes from experience and provides the perspective of a well-trained, thoughtful, ethical evaluator. He discusses the child custody evaluation process as I believe it should be--no wonder I liked the book so much." --M. Dee Samuels in Family Advocate Based on Philip Michael Stahl's extensive experience "in the trenches," Conducting Child Custody Evaluations presents a detailed examination of the many complex questions and issues involved in this process. Practical guidelines for completing evaluations are provided, including helpful information on interviewing parents and children, testifying in court, writing custody evaluations, working with attorneys, getting paid, and working in an ethical manner. Such fundamental concerns relating to divorce as the ability to parent, bonding and attachment of children and parents, the formulation of custody/access plans, and specific developmental issues are also addressed. Sensible, lucid, and insightful, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of how child custody evaluations are conducted and an excellent resource for psychologists, evaluators, social workers, family court and private mediators, judges, attorneys, and graduate students. "For those who need to know, for whatever reason, this is a valuable introduction, in comprehensive and surprizingly jargon-free detail, to a rarely considered topic." --Child & Family Behavior Therapy "This text is comprehensive, covering topics from interviewing children to how evaluators can stay current and experience professional renewal. It also has some very practical information relevant to anyone who performs child custody evaluations, from old hands to beginners. . . . This book is valuable to anyone interested in this subject: evaluators who seek to perform this task, attorneys who seek to understand the process of evaluation, judges who seek to evaluate the quality of an evaluation, and even parents who undergo such an evaluation. It presents a significant contribution to the field." --Family and Conciliation Courts Review "Conducting Child Custody Evaluations. . . is excellent. What makes this text so valuable is it is born of years of experience and reflects a more advanced vision about families following divorce. Both beginning and advanced evaluators will gain a great deal from reading this manual. It is both comprehensive and practical, capturing the essence and the spirit of performing this critical task. Even more importantly, it has several ideas about how evaluations can stay current and captures the value of a good evaluation on families, as well as the court. Nice work!" --Hugh McIsaac, Director, Family Court Services, Multnomah City Circuit Court, Portland, Oregon, and Editor, Family and Conciliation Courts Review "Dr. Stahl does a thorough, clear, and highly readable job of covering the complex arena of child custody evaluations, articulating the multiple demands on the evaluator, providing specific evaluation techniques for a range of referral questions, in addition to outlining extra-evaluation issues such as ethical concerns, the evaluator's relationship to the court, and burn-out. This is an excellent resource for both the new evaluator and those with expertise." --S. Margaret Lee, Ph.D., Private Practice, Greenbrae, California "Dr. Stahl is one of those rare professionals who neither talks down--or around--the problem. His book should be in the library of every serious family lawyer, family judge, and family evaluator." --John Kydd, J.D., M.S.W., and President Elect, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts "Anybody working on behalf of children in the civil courts could make good use of this text. Pay particular attention to chapters 5, 6 and 7, the appendices, and especially the specimen reports and excerpts. These are4 the heart of the book. And here Dr. Stahl's style is a model of clarity and simplicity." --Guy Mitchell in Legal and Criminological

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A Guide to the Perplexed.......2003-12-07

A surprisingly fresh and impressively comprehensive guide to the convoluted process of custody evaluations. The need for these court-mandated evaluations arises when one of the parents - often, the father - is a repeat offender, an abuser.

Abusers are thought by practitioners of psychology to be emotionally disturbed, the twisted outcomes of a history of familial violence and childhood traumas. They are typically diagnosed as suffering from a personality disorder, an inordinately low self-esteem, or codependence coupled with an all-devouring fear of abandonment. Consummate abusers use the right vocabulary and feign the appropriate "emotions" and affect and, thus, sway the evaluator's judgment.

As Lundy Bancroft correctly observes, Confronted with this contrast between a polished, self-controlled, and suave abuser and his harried casualties - it is easy to reach the conclusion that the real victim is the abuser, or that both parties abuse each other equally. The prey's acts of self-defense, assertiveness, or insistence on her rights are interpreted as aggression, lability, or a mental health problem.

The book draws attention to these pitfalls and provides a through description of the system and its protagonists. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".

a must for all...........2003-05-01

if you are going to have a child custody matter you better read this book!!! read what they look for before you have an evaluation, be prepared!

Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property and Litigation

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Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property and Litigation
Thomas J. Miceli
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ASIN: 0195103904

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Over the past two decades, the field of law and economics has matured to the point where scholars have employed the latest economic methods in an effort to understand the nature of legal rules and to guide legal reform. This book is the first to provide a broad survey of this scholarship as it has been applied to problems in torts, contracts, property, and litigation. It will therefore serve as a convenient reference guide to this exciting field.

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Good intro and overview........2000-09-18

I can't say I have any great love for the school of thought expounded in this volume. But if it's mathematical models you want, it's mathematical models you'll get in this fine introduction. (Me, I disagree with the mathematical-models approach pretty much _in toto_ and favor the Austrian school of economics -- von Mises, Rothbard, et alia -- on a foundation of rationalism. But my disagreement doesn't detract from the quality of Miceli's presentation.)

In each of the four areas mentioned in his subtitle, Miceli presents a basic "model" in one chapter and then rings the changes on it in the next. His presentation is clear and solid, though it does require at least some background in undergraduate-level mathematics. (And in general, it's a good idea to know at least enough mathematics to overcome the tendency to be impressed by it!)

Readers interested in this field but without much background in math are advised to read Mercuro/Medema's _Economics and the Law_ first, especially the chapter on the Chicago School. I'd personally recommend reading Miceli's book before moving on to Posner's _Economic Analysis of the Law_, Landes/Posner's _Economic Structure of Tort Law_, and Shavell's _Economic Analysis of Accident Law_.

For another good introductory work in some respects "orthogonal" to this one, see Polinsky's _An Introduction to Law and Economics_. In addition to providing a fuller discussion of the Coase Theorem, Polinsky also raises questions about possible conflicts between efficiency and equity. Personally, I don't think this entire school of thought deals adequately with those conflicts, but Polinsky does make the attempt.

Readers critical of "law and economics" and seeking an opposing point of view -- indeed, an opposing fundamental outlook -- might wish to read Ernest Weinrib's _The Idea of Private Law_. (In my own view based on my reading to date, the genuine insights of the "law and economics" movement can be taken up, with appropriate modification, into Weinrib's outlook -- but the other direction doesn't work.)

Best Textbook Treatment of the Economics of Law.......1999-01-23

Thomas Miceli wrote the most comprehensive technical treatment of law and economics. The text contains formal mathematical models with a coherent coverage of the main issues in contracts, property, torts, and litigation. The book is written for an educated audience. Unquestionably the best among the wide-range treatments of law and economics. Comparable in quality and technical sophistication to Posner-Landes's treatment of tort law and Shavell's treatment of accident law.

International Sale of Goods in the Conflict of Laws (Oxford Private International Law Series)

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International Sale of Goods in the Conflict of Laws (Oxford Private International Law Series)
James J. Fawcett , Jonathan M. Harris , and Michael Bridge
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This book is the first one in English to focus in depth upon the private international law problems raised by the sale of goods. It begins with the substantive law and practice, and uses this as the basis for a comparative and critical discussion of the private international law issues. Examples of the typical obligations of the buyer and seller are also provided. International Sale of Goods in the Conflict of Laws is a strong new addition to the Oxford Private International Law Series and covers everything from torts to e-commerce. Contracts of sale with a cross-border element are an everyday occurrence and one which is becoming ever more common with the advent of modern communications technology. For example, where, for jurisdictional purposes, is the place or performance of the obligation to pay for goods? Where software is sold over the Internet, is this a sale of goods contract and, if so, where are the goods delivered? Foreign judgments as to title raise complex questions as to enforcement, recognition and res judicata. As regards choice of law, sales-specific problems arise to a large extent from the interaction of contractual obligations and title matters which are central to the sale contract and the complex characterisation questions which ensue. They arise from the enactment in many countries of the Vienna Convention, from the complex inter-relationship between buyer, seller and third parties and from sales-specific domestic legislation which may be mandatory irrespective of the applicable law. The book is concerned not only with contractual disputes that can arise out of the international sale of goods but also with torts, such as conversion and negligent misstatement, that can arise out of this type of contract. Restitutionary and proprietary claims can also arise. Special attention is paid to both the jurisdictional and choice of law problems that occur in cases of business to business e-commerce.

Water Boundaries (Wiley Series in Surveying and Boundary Control)

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George M. Cole
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A comprehensive guide to all legal and technical aspects of water boundaries.

Water Boundaries is a single-source guide to all critical legal and technical water boundary issues. An indispensable resource for surveyors, political geographers, public land managers, attorneys, developers, real estate professionals, and students in these and other related fields, this book provides:

In-depth discussions of the legal issues surrounding all types of water boundaries
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Water boundaries are perhaps the oldest and most widely used of man's boundaries. Yet, despite this long history of usage, water boundaries are probably the most frequently and bitterly contested boundaries in today's society. Because shorelines and bodies of water are dynamic rather than static, knotty technical and legal disagreements over water boundaries invariably crop up. Recent land use practices have created a growing demand for precisely located and legally defensible water boundaries. As a consequence, the need for a single-source professional reference such as this has never been greater.

Water Boundaries is a comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to this highly specialized area. Written for surveyors and engineers, as well as legal and real estate professionals, it provides in-depth discussions of the legal issues surrounding each type of water boundary while describing the full range of modern methods for precisely locating them.

This volume covers all types of water boundaries, including division lines between private uplands and public submerged lands in both tidal and nontidal waters, lateral division lines between adjacent riparian ownerships, boundaries between state and federal waters, and offshore international boundaries.

For technical specialists, the author provides detailed specifications for mean high water line surveys, as well as all relevant mathematics, including formulas for calculating tidal data and predicting optimum placement of tide gauges, analytical techniques for estimating high water in nontidal bodies of water, and the use of coordinate geometry in constructing equidistant and median lines.

Technical and nontechnical readers alike will appreciate the many illustrative real-world case studies scattered throughout the book.

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Newly revised and updated, How to Administer an Estate is a step-by-step self-help resource that guides you through the entire estate and probate process from start to finish. In clear, precise, helpful language, Stephen Christianson walks you through each of the procedures involved in the process from the first steps to take upon the testator's death, to wills vs. intestacy, to closing an estate. He answers every possible question along the way, such as: -How do you decide to become an executor?
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Not So Confused Anymore.......2007-09-16

I am so glad I found this book. I am administrator of my moms will and had no idea how probate worked. This book helped answer a lot of questions for me. Thank you for selling this.

How to Administer an Estate: A Step-By-Step Guide for Families and Friends.......2005-12-22

Even for a lawyer who does not practice in this area of law, this book is a must-see to help you get through the often times confusing area of probate. The book is well suited to the law in any state, and is especially helpful if you are the family member who gets handed the ball after a death in your family

How To Settle Your Living Trust : How You Can Settle a Living Trust Swiftly, Easily, and Safely

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How To Settle Your Living Trust : How You Can Settle a Living Trust Swiftly, Easily, and Safely
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Praise for Henry W. Abts III's Previous Book: "Unquestionably the layman's most nearly complete source on living trusts. . . . Recommended reading for anyone who wants to maximize his net estate left to heirs, speed asset distribution after death, avoid will challenges, minimize estate costs, and maintain privacy." -- Robert Bruss, Esq. Nationally Syndicated Real Estate Columnist Chicago Tribune "Presents in clear, concise, and readable language what every person needs to know. I heartily recommend it as required reading for every caring husband, wife, parent-all those with an estate to pass along to heirs." -- Byron Countryman, Esq. Countryman and McDaniel Attorneys at Law, Los Angeles From bestselling author Henry W. Abts III comes this comprehensive guide to protecting your estate for your heirs. How to Settle Your Living Trust provides you with everything you need to know to distribute Trust assets, understand the legal and financial aspects of Trusts, properly handle asset valuation, get protection in special circumstances, avoid unnecessary taxes and legal fees, and more. Samples and explanations of all the necessary documents--durable power of attorney for health care or general asset competency clause, living will, etc.--are included, as are the "key" rules and methods for organizing all financial information. Sample (filled-in) IRS tax forms are included to show the reader how to satisfy the IRS Trust settlement requirements. A must-have guide and reference, this book brings you peace of mind if you are interested in ensuring that your estate is passed on promptly and correctly. How to Settle Your Living Trust offers pertinent advice for surviving family members, as well as attorneys and accountants. It includes:

Up-to-date information on recent tax changes affecting estate settlement
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Estate settlement techniques for all estates, whether small, average, or large
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Sound advice for surviving spouse and family members
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How to Settle Your Living Trust provides guidance in avoiding tax traps and other estate settlement pitfalls. Did you know that:

Up to 75 percent of your traditional IRA can be consumed by taxes if you die before all the funds are depleted?
Distributions from a traditional IRA must begin at age 701/2?
Estate settlement differs in separate property states and community property states?
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Special techniques are available that allow full stepped-up valuation on all Trust assets, even in separate property states?

A nationally recognized authority on Living Trusts, Henry W. Abts III is chairman and founder of The Estate Plan, the nation's oldest and largest Living Trust production corporation, responsible for creating more than 25,000 Living Trusts. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Abts holds a master's degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Great help!.......2007-08-26

Exactly what I was looking for to settle a trust. You need to know the basics of trusts but it fills in the rest of what you need to settle a trust.

How to Settle Your Living Trust:; How you can Settle a LIving Trust Swiftly .......2005-08-14

I am amazed the author of this book had the nerve to write such a book. I used his company to settle my father's estate-it wasn't swiftOR easy-it was a NIGHTMARE- requiring 4 attorneys, three accountants and 3 years of constant legal work to clean up the mess that his company recreated. My father was middle class and trusted the advise he got from Mr. Abts- his advise ended costing us thousands in legal fees-, and 3 years of constant stress to get the mess he created cleaned up. When confronted - we found that not only was his advise bad but that he does not stand behind his advise or work! we had no legal recourse for his major mistakes as he is NOT an attorney!

Doesn't cover settling a trust........2002-08-08

I am in the process of settling a rather simple trust. However, I found this book of no use. Note the author first wrote a book titled "A Living Trust" which discussed setting up a living trust. "Settle a Living Trust" is a rehash of the "A Living Trust" with a little information about settling a trust. I wouldn't recommend buying this book if your seeking help in settling a trust.

Lawyer Finds Book Useful.......2000-05-28

As an attorney specializing in estate planning for 17 years, I found some good ideas in this book. However, there are a number of statements that are misleading at best and flat-out wrong (from a technical legal and tax standpoint), at worst. Still, your lawyer should be able to spot those and it's still a very worthwhile book, on the whole.

Required Reading BEFORE you die.......1999-06-05

Some repeated sad stories from his first book "The Living Trust". Once past these, there is some very useful info. Read it very carefully, and then take questions to his outfit, or your lawyer, or both. Then advise your next trustees so they know what is coming.

International Commercial Agreements (Thorogood Professional Insights series)

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Rebecca Attree
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This new Professional Insight appears at an exciting time for international commercial lawyers: new legislation, fresh opportunities--and the challenge of understanding fully how to exploit them.

Recent changes to EC Competition law have made a significant impact upon parties' freedom to contract commercially, generally giving them greater flexibility. In the field of e-commerce, the EC has issued a welter of laws that are in the course of being implemented into national laws.

The report explains the principles and techniques of successful international negotiation and provides a valuable insight into the commercial points to be considered as a result of the laws relating to: pre-contract; private international law; resolving disputes (including alternative methods, such as mediation); competition law; drafting common clauses; and contracting electronically.

It also examines in more detail certain specific international commercial agreements, namely agency and distribution and licensing.

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K-Mart Law (i.e. The Rentacop's Bible)

Private Security Law: Case Studies
David Maxwell
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Private Security Law: Case Studies is uniquely designed for the special needs of private security practitioners, students, and instructors. Part One of the book encompasses negligence, intentional torts, agency contracts, alarms, and damages. Part Two covers authority of the private citizen, deprivation of rights, and entrapment.

The factual cases presented in this book touch on the everyday duties of persons associated with the private security industry. Private Security Law: Case Studies provides a basic orientation to problems capable of inciting litigation. The information presented through case laws comes from cases chosen for their factual, realistic, and practical connection to the private security industry. This focused approach addresses specific problem areas of the industry and provides information necessary to a security manager to avert future loss.

Specially designed for private security practitioners, instructors, and students.
Examines cases that are practical, realistic and relevant to specific areas of private security.
Provides the information security managers need to avoid future problems.

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Premiere text not aging gracefully.......2002-10-13

As a security professional and attorney with more than 30 years of experience, I have used this text in my graduate courses on security case law and security management for more than eight years with more than 400 students at two universities. The clarity of the author's text and the case-based format makes it an ideal text.

However, without a recent update or new edition, the example cases are now sadly out of date. In addition, newer topics in the area of cyber-security and updated laws on the regulation and powers of private security personnel are not addressed in the text.

Use of this text now requires considerable work by the professor to bring in new materials and update nearly twenty years of case law decisions. In fairness to the author, however, I am not aware of any text on this topic that is more useful -- even in today's classrooms.

K-Mart Law (i.e. The Rentacop's Bible).......2001-02-12

According to editor David A. Maxwell, the role of subsidized law enforcement is becoming increasingly supplanted by private security personnel (primarily as a result of municipal tax dollars spreading too thin, but also as a buffer to litigation from citizens injured and/or victimized on private property), and as a result, the criminal justice system will be forced to engineer new legal paradigms to control these corporate spaces, what with our "public" environments becoming increasingly privatized (shopping malls, apartment buildings, condominiums, retail outlets, hotels, bars, restaurants, casinos, health care institutions), a postmodern Main Street, fragmented and decentralized. What the industry needs (and what Maxwell provides) are a series of discourses that explore these new legal dangers and issues of accountability, providing a code of ethics for underpaid, underrespected "rentacops" who nevertheless find themselves bearing the brunt of municipal police functionality, badge-wearing "civilians" with limited arrest and investigatory powers.

Maxwell provides a brilliantly edited anthology of case studies designed for the security manager, but generally used as a supplemental text in university courses on security administration. Recently, however, many professors have realized that merely technical excurses on the security industry tend mainly to put their students to sleep, while oversimplifying the civic answerability issues (i.e. a litigation-happy American society) which haunt every rentacop comptroller (not to mention the citizens who are routinely victimized by poor training, negligent hiring, and cost-cutting managerial tactics). Maxwell's book (and others like it) are rapidly becoming the required text in progressive courses on the subject, useful not only for those working in the industry, but also the network of lawyers, policeman, magistrates, and even potential litigants who routinely come into contact with security officers.

It is perhaps no accident that Maxwell's selected cases are often highly entertaining in their own right, exploring the legal vicissitudes of some truly bizarre and, at times, unbelievable scenarios. Granted, most of the cases involve the usual synopses of simple negligence, intentional torts, vicarious liability, contract law, false arrest, illegal detention, invasion of privacy, entrapment, et al. But beneath it all, Maxwell's editorial sense of humor keeps a devilish grin on the reader's face, many of the cases giving off that whiff of seedy, voyeuristic pleasure we usually associate with "reality" shows on the Fox network.

Remember Butterfly McQueen, the Oscar-nominated actress who played Scarlett O'Hara's squeaky-voiced handmaid back in 1939? Well, in her elderly years she had a disastrous run-in a pair of overzealous security guards, who literally *karate-chopped* her to the floor of a Greyhound bus terminal because they "thought she was stealing" (Int. Sec. Corp. of Virginia v. McQueen, pgs. 185-7). Or how about a K-Mart shopper whose colostomy-bag is mistaken for shoplifted merchandise, and unceremoniously ripped out of his colon by a non-English-speaking store detective (Canty v. Wackenhut, pgs. 188-9)? Or a peckish youth who is caught pleasuring himself by a parking-lot security-camera, the tape maliciously circulated amongst the employees of his father's workplace (Turner v. General Motors, pgs. 208-11)?

I hate to sensationalize what is, in the end, a dead-serious range of issues. There are of course plenty of weighty, somber, tragic scenarios included here as well, where shots are fired, tempers flare out of control, and citizens and rentacops alike end up terrorized, humiliated, beaten or killed. Yet even the most banal of case-studies convey that self-surveillant chill of civic instability, tapping into our personal histories of resentment and humiliation in the midst of public embarrassment and misunderstanding, the abuse of authority, the sense of subtle victimization and entanglement many of us feel in a highly regulated, obsessively policed and hyper-litigious society. Roughly 95% of the cases here involve lawsuits where something goes *wrong* with the security apparatus, and there's nothing that gets the bile flowing faster in our culture than the looming threat of litigation, the gut-churning anxiety of trying to get compensated through the system for the routine abasements of living in a corporatized environment.

In the end, Maxwell's book has as much sociological as legalistic value. The rentacop, underpaid and disrespected, is becoming an important player in the high-stakes game of public safety and civil liability. But respect and higher wages will only come with a complete overhaul of the industry, both in its ethical precepts and legal safeguards. If Maxwell's book has the influence I hope it will have, then many of us will be able to live in a safer, happier, less persecutory public (private?) environment, with less hatred for the badge, and more confidence in the propensity of private citizens to look out for one another.

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