English Child Custody Law, 1660-1839: The Origins of Judicial Intervention in Paternal Custody

1999 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Abramowicz
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Judicial Intervention ◽  
English Child ◽  
Child Custody Law

scholarly journals Who Determines Children's Best Interests?

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-314
Author(s):  
Michael Grossberg
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
English Child ◽  
Child Custody Law ◽  
Maternal Rights ◽  
Policies And Practices

Danaya Wright's analysis of English child custody law is thoughtful and thought provoking. Through an excursion deep into English legal history, she not only contextualizes the De Manneville case but also convincingly demonstrates that child custody has long been contested and that those contests have always contained an incendiary mix of policies and practices. Wright's article documents that the key elements of custody conflicts—property, children's needs, and paternal and maternal rights and claims—have distinct and collective histories and that both defy easy analysis. In doing so, her essay makes it clear that these cases have always been difficult because they involve changing and clashing interests and because common law tribunals are the setting for their definition and application. Consequently, her essay is a compelling example of the benefits of locating a case in its particular place and time.

Forms of exclusion in child custody law

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 339-352
Author(s):  
Carol S. Bruch
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Child Custody Law

scholarly journals Joint Physical Custody After Parental Separation: A Polish Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kamińska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Family Court ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Swedish Experience ◽  
Parenting Agreement ◽  
Child Custody Law ◽  
Polish Law ◽  
Joint Physical Custody ◽  
Physical Custody

The aim of this paper was to present the characteristics of joint physical custody in Polish family law. For this purpose the relevant regulations of the Polish law were analysed. In the paper, the substantive as well as the procedural provisions were compared. The Family Court may award joint physical custody if the parties have made an agreement, consistent with the welfare of the child, or in the absence of such a parenting agreement, having regard to a child’s right to both parents. One hypothesis assumes that joint physical custody does not mean only symmetric child custody arrangements, and its proper application by courts is determined by taking into account many different factors. In the paper, the results of the examination referred to joint custody in child custody law in Germany and the Swedish experience of joint physical custody, were presented. The main advantage of joint physical custody is to provide both parents equal control over decision regarding a child’s upbringing and to split the time that a child spends living with each of them. This paper contains a reflection on joint physical custody in the face of COVID-19. The current pandemic is having an enormous impact on families. During this particular time, it is time to become more cooperative and more fluid, not less.

MMPI-2 in Child Custody Litigation

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Roma ◽  
Federica Ricci ◽  
Georgios D. Kotzalidis ◽  
Luigi Abbate ◽  
Anna Lubrano Lavadera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Custody Evaluations ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Child Custody Evaluations ◽  
Italian Women

In recent years, several studies have addressed the issue of positive self-presentation bias in assessing parents involved in postdivorce child custody litigations. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used in forensic assessments and is able to evaluate positive self-presentation through its Superlative Self-Presentation S scale. We investigated the existence of a gender effect on positive self-presentation bias in an Italian sample of parents involved in court evaluation. Participants were 391 divorced parents who completed the full 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 during child custody evaluations ordered by several Italian courts between 2006 and 2010. Our analysis considered the S scale along with the basic clinical scales. North-American studies had shown no gender differences in child custody litigations. Differently, our results showed a significantly higher tendency toward “faking-good” profiles on the MMPI-2 among Italian women as compared to men and as compared to the normative Italian female population. Cultural and social factors could account for these differences.

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