Psychological evaluations of children are confidential. A recent case has come down in California that enforces the idea of confidentialty and the importance of keeping information gotten from a investigation secret. All of this comes from the importances of keeping our children safe from attorneys and the divorcing parties or child custody litigants who are so angry with each other that they will do anything to destroy each others reputation and credibility. Sadly child custody investigations are really a result of the vicious lawsuits that are filed blaming the other parent of atrocities worse than warfare. The lack of civility has created an area of family law that has become so often used and abused by litigants that we lose site of our children and their needs and concerns. We forget they are lost in the craziness of the parents and their vicious accusations upon one anther without any merit usually. “Confidential information contained in a…
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