Custody on Trial

Demand Due Process and Force the Court to Play by the Rules

von Kelly Mills

188 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Don't let junk science, evaluator bias, or broken family court procedure cost you custody of your children.High-conflict custody cases are not won on emotion. They are won on evidence, procedure, and science that holds up under scrutiny. Yet every year thousands of parents face court-appointed evaluators who exceed their statutory authority, rely on psychological tests never validated for custody decisions, and recommend life-altering orders with no empirical basis behind them.Custody on Trial is a working litigation manual for parents, trial attorneys, and advocates.Inside you will find: - The forensic black box, opened. How to use the Tippins and Wittmann Four-Level Model to strike unscientific "ultimate-issue" custody recommendations under Daubert and Frye.- Personality testing on trial. Step-by-step methods for challenging the misuse of the MMPI-2 and MCMI, and for excluding custody-specific instruments like the ASPECT, BPS, and PORT that lack published norms and known error rates.- Alienation versus estrangement. How to apply the Five-Factor Model and the relevant DSM-5 categories to distinguish genuine parental alienation from a child's justified response to real harm, and how to answer a false allegation.- The research on shared parenting. What the meta-analytic evidence actually shows about 50/50 custody, including in high-conflict cases, and how to put it in front of a judge without overstating it.- Federal and statutory shields. How to invoke Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal civil rights protections when a diagnosis is used against a fit parent.- Courtroom-ready tools. Cross-examination scripts, evaluator audit checklists, gatekeeping behavioral logs, and motion in limine templates.Whether you are a parent fighting for your right to raise your child or a practitioner looking for an evidentiary edge, this book gives you the procedural footing to hold family court to its own standards.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173924377
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published