The Art and Science of Child Custody Evaluations

by Jonathan W. Gould and David A. Martindale

Guilford Press

New York, 2007. 450 pp.

DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.106

Approximately 43% of first marriages end in divorce within 15 years, most having produced children (National Center for Health Statistics, 2001). The majority of divorcing parents come to their own custody agreement, either on their own or after a few letters back and forth between their lawyers. Those who cannot resolve custody on their own get the courts involved and are very often sent to mediation, where many resolve it. A small minority fail to agree during mediation or with the advice of ...