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Children, courts, and custody : interdisciplinary models for divorcing families / Andrew I. Schepard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521822017
  • 9780521822015
  • 0521529301
  • 9780521529303
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 346.730173 22
LOC classification:
  • KF547 .S33 2004
Online resources:
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.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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