Children, courts, and custody : interdisciplinary models for divorcing families /

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Author / Creator:Schepard, Andrew, 1948-
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5151250
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ISBN:0521822017
0521529301 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-210) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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