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The Concept and Historical Background of Custody Evaluation.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Lee, Myung Hoon Chung, Dong Sun Moon, Duk Soo Kwack, Young Sook
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	This article reviews a wide range of literature on the standards and process of child custody evaluation in the US, and proposes custody evaluation standards appropriate to Korea. Custody evaluation refers to the process of making psychiatric and psychological evaluations of each parent and the child during a custody dispute and presenting to the family court a report of custody evaluation with the aim of safeguarding the best interests of the child. In the past, it was thought that children arethe fathers’ possessions or that younger children should be raised by the mother; however, currently, custody rights are evaluated in accordance with the principle of the best interests of the child. The principle is all-encompassing and vague and hence, the court makes increasingly more requests to mental health professionals for custody evaluation. Since the Seoul Family Court introduced the expert consultation system in 2017, the involvement of mental health professionals in child custody decisions has increased in Korea. Custody evaluators should try to be neutral and find the objective facts, keeping in mind that their role is to aid the court in making a custody decision.
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ISSN	1225729X
Journal	Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [Soa Chongsonyon Chongsin Uihak]
Volume Number	31
DOI	10.5765/jkacap.200005
PubMed Central reference number	PMC7289476
Issue Number	2
PubMed reference number	32595342
e-ISSN	22339183
Language	English
Publisher	Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Publisher Date	2020-04-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2020 Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Subject Keyword	Child custody Divorce Best interest Family court Forensic psychiatry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Psychiatry and Mental Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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