La ruptura de la pareja es, en la mayoría de los casos, un proceso complicado y doloroso, especialmente para los más pequeños. Los niños son la parte más vulnerable de la familia y una ruptura mal orientada puede colocarles en una clara situación de riesgo, comprometiendo seriamente su estabilidad emocional y su proceso madurativo. Los…

These guidelines are designed to address the developing area of practice known as parenting coordination. In response to the recognition by family courts and substantial evidence in the empirical and clinical literature that divorce does not end patterns of high parental conflict for some families parenting coordination interventions began to be developed more than two…

The pressures of providing family courts with reliable information about families within limited time frames in light of increasing numbers of litigants (many of whom are self-represented), busy court dockets, and scarce resources to fund assessment contributed to the development over the years of a variety of brief focused models of assessment. Although these evolving…

En este artículo se analiza el nivel de conocimiento de ética deontológica de los psicólogos forenses expertos en el ámbito de familia y la adecuación de su postura ética particular a los estándares éticos, así como la posible relación de ello con la frecuencia con que los expertos se enfrentan a las situaciones planteadas. Participan…

This qualitative synthesis explores the voices of children in the context of child custody disputes over the last 20 years. The purpose was to (1) systematically retrieve qualitative studies to explore children’s views and preferences in the context of decision making postseparation and divorce and (2) explore how children’s voices are being heard or not.…

Child protection mediation (CPM) is a collaborative problem solving process involving an impartial and neutral person who facilitates constructive negotiation and communication among parents, lawyers, child protection professionals, and possibly others, in an effort to reach a consensus regarding how to resolve issues of concern when children are alleged to be abused, ne…

This article reviews the development and current status of the parent education movement in the family courts. Parent education programs are now being implemented in courts throughout the United States and have a high level of public acceptance; however, a stronger research methodology to evaluate the effects and continued work to align the goals with…

Factors that predict custody and visitation decisions are an important area of research, especially in the context of high-conflict divorce. In these cases, youths are at significantly higher risk for exposure to ongoing conflict, violence, and triangulation in their parents’ disputes. What variables courts and evaluation clinics use to make custody decisions and whether…

Children’s psychological adjustment following parental separation or divorce is a function of the characteristics of the custodial parent, as well as the degree of postdivorce parental cooperation. Over time, custody has shifted from fathers to mothers and currently to joint arrangements. In this retrospective chart review of family court clinic records we examined predi…

These Child Custody Evaluation Standards are designed in part to guide and assist custody evaluators, attorneys and the court in the performance of their duties. In disseminating these Standards, the goal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers is to contribute to the ongoing education of custody evaluators, attorneys and courts, thereby promoting good practice;…