Child Custody Resources

NJEP has developed a comprehensive curriculum on evaluating allegations of child sexual abuse in the context of custody disputes and other material about custody evaluations generally, as described below.

  • Adjudicating Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse When Custody is in Dispute
    This curriculum presents current empirical data on the subject of child sexual abuse allegations arising in the context of child custody and visitation disputes. The purpose of this curriculum is to promote the fair administration of justice by improving courts' ability to assess child sexual abuse allegations, and to make decisions in these cases that reflect the best interests of the child. The curriculum utilizes a variety of interactive teaching techniques to present this material in ways familiar to judges: factual hypotheticals, evaluating expert qualifications and testimony, and mock temporary and permanent custody and visitation orders.
  • Detailed Description
  • Order form - $80 ($70 court entities)
  • Evaluating the Evaluators: Problems with Outside 'Neutrals': Bias among custody evaluators in all types of custody disputes, and the need for uniform evaluation instruments are described in Lynn Hecht Schafran, Evaluating the Evaluators: Problems with Outside 'Neutrals,' The Judge's Journal, Winter 2003, page 10. The article is available to download here.