Comprehensive Custody Evaluations

We offer Comprehensive Custody Evaluations for parents who cannot reach agreement on long-term physical and legal custody arrangements.

Procedures include multiple individual interviews with parents and children, multiple interaction sessions with different members of households, a joint session with the parents together, telephone collateral interviews, review of ancillary material that is submitted, psychological testing, home visits when appropriate, and other procedures depending on the issues in the case.

We provide a written report with detailed recommendations about physical and legal custody issues. We aim to send our report to the court and attorneys ten (10) court days prior to the court date. In some cases, we provide feedback to the parents and attorneys in a face-to-face meeting and provide a brief write-up of our conclusions and recommendations. Our goal is to provide a report for most of our cases within eight (8) to twelve (12) weeks of the first appointment.

If the parties and attorneys wish to contain costs, we can conference with attorneys to reach agreement on limiting procedures and the extensiveness of the written report.

For more information, click an item below.

• Setting a Custody Evaluation Appointment
• Comprehensive Custody Evaluation Forms and Related Information