Challenging Issues in Child Custody Disputes: A Guide for Legal and Mental Health Professionals

Details and specs

As a companion volume to Child Custody Assessments: A Resource Guide for Legal and Mental Health Professionals, this text is a detailed manual that provides best practices in conducting and participating in child custody assessments in situations that involve high domestic conflict and special challenges relating to relocations in domestic disputes.

Challenging Issues in Child Custody Disputes: A Guide for Legal and Mental Health Professionals is intended to delve into a number of difficult child custody situations including:

• Moves and relocations, especially relocations in high-conflict situations
• Understanding domestic violence and its impact on families
• Differential assessments and the courts perspective in high conflict situations
• Sexual abuse allegations
• Child alienation and its impact on families, along with
• Judicial remedies, many other resources, guidelines, and tools for both legal and mental health professionals

This resource also includes up-to-date lists of current literature in the area, provincial legislation tables, assessment frameworks and tools, precedent parent-child contract agreement, a detailed analytical index, and table of cases.