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When Laws Change: Ramifications and Implications for Child Custody Evaluations
The practice of forensic psychology requires awareness of fundamental changes in the law, which may alter processes and competencies in addressing...
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Parent-child Discrepancies in Reporting Children’s Mental Health: Do Physical Custody Arrangements in Post-separation Families Matter?
Most analyses of children’s well-being in separated families are based on reports provided by parents. Thus, the question arises whether...
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Uncertainty in Child Custody Cases After Parental Separation: Context and Decision-Making Process
Context factors (e.g. a family’s developmental crisis) can affect the child custody decision-making process and the child’s best interests after...
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Three-Year Custody Outcomes Among Infants Investigated by Child Protection Systems for Prenatal Substance Exposure in California
ObjectiveInfants affected by prenatal alcohol and drug use are more likely to be removed from parental custody than those in the general population,...
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Affirmative Action, Child Custody, and “Expressive” Websites: The Supreme Court’s 2022–2023 Term
The Supreme Court’s 2022–2023 Term included several cases that will interest mental health professionals. One demonstration of this interest was that...
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Children in Custody Disputes Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems
This open access book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child...
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The Role of Formal Policy to Promote Informed Consent of Psychotropic Medications for Youth in Child Welfare Custody: A National Examination
Active participation of youth and surrogate decision-makers in providing informed consent and assent for mental health treatment is critical....
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Joint Physical Custody and Mothers’ Well-Being. An Analysis of Life Satisfaction, Depressiveness, and Stress
Although research has shown that separation or divorce can have negative consequences for mothers, only a few empirical studies have explored the...
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Children’s Health Matters in Custody Conflicts: Best Interests of the Child and Decisions on Health Matters
This chapter addresses conflicts of interest that might arise when there are ongoing custody disputes and, in particular, how legal instruments can...
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Custody Disputes From a Socio-Legal Perspective
This chapter examines high-conflict custody disputes in court and discusses whether Swedish legislation is suited to providing for children’s rights...
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Joint physical custody, parent–child relationships, and children’s psychosomatic problems
AimThe prevalence of psychosomatic complaints among children and adolescents appears to be increasing. At the same time, the numbers of joint...
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Child Custody Laws and Household Outcomes
Shared parenting or joint physical custody is an increasingly common phenomenon in many Western countries. While one strand of the economics...
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Parliamentary Debates on Joint Custody Legislation
The Parliament of Aragón (a Spanish autonomous community) approved two laws regulating joint custody during a fairly short period of time: the first...
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A neural network to identify requests, decisions, and arguments in court rulings on custody
Court rulings are among the most important documents in all legal systems. This article describes a study in which natural language processing is...
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Does Part-Time Mothering Help Get a Job? The Role of Shared Custody in Women’s Employment
Though child shared physical custody arrangements after divorce are much more frequent and parents who use it more diverse in many European...
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Introduction: Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems in Custody Disputes
The introductory chapter presents the aim, outline, and content of the anthology. First, it describes the dilemmas and challenges that arise in...
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Time-sensitive healthcare guidelines for youth with chronic diseases in custody: gaps in care
Case studyOn May 9th, 2023, a U.S. Border Patrol detained a family of five near Brownsville, TX. During processing, one of the family members, an...
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Unregulated Custody Transfer of Adopted Children
Did you know that once a week an adopted child is advertised to be given away on Internet? The book “Unregulated Custody Transfer of Adopted...
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Children’s Health Matters in Custody Conflicts—What Do We Know?
This chapter covers the topic of research about available empirical knowledge regarding the relationships of joint physical custody, interparental...
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Parsing Through Public Records: When and How is Self-Reported Violence Documented and When Does it Influence Custody Outcomes?
We investigate when and how two types of self-reported intimate partner violence (IPV), situational couple violence (SCV) and coercive controlling...
