Andrew SchepardChildren, Courts, and Custody
Interdisciplinary Models for Divorcing Families
Preface
1. Overview
2. Kramer vs Kramer revisited: the sole custody/adversary system paradigm
3. Divorce, children and courts: an empirical perspective
4. Parents are forever I: joint custody and parenting plans
5. Parents are forever II: Alternative dispute resolution and mediation
6. Parents are forever III: Court-affiliated educational programs
7. Contrasting child custody court paradigms: New York and California
8. Family violence
9. Differentiated case management
10. Lawyers for parents
11. The voice of the child, the lawyer for the child and child alienation
12. Neutral Mental Health Evaluators
13. The best interests test and its presumption-based competitors
14. Consolidating the new paradigm: the future of the child custody court
Acknowledgements
Endnotes.