Issue Information

• Published date: 01 October 2023
• Date: 01 October 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12651

FAMILY COURT REVIEWVolume 61 Number 4 October 2023

The Journal of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

AFCC

Published in cooperation with the Center for

Children, Families and the Law of the Maurice

A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Editorial Note

October 2023 – Barbara A. Babb and Marsha Kline Pruett

Special Issue: Child Custody Evaluation

Guest editors’ introduction to the 2023 special issue on parenting plan evaluations – Philip M. Stahl, Robert A. Simon and

Kathleen McNamara

The future of parenting plan evaluations: A view from the trenches – Kathleen McNamara and Mary Lund

Modelsand methods of cost-effective child custody evaluation – Aaron Robb

Training parenting plan evaluators: Looking towards the future – Robert L. Kaufman, Robin M. Deutsch and April Harris-Britt

Best practices for structuring a family court parenting plan evaluation under the 2022 AFCC Guidelines –

David A. Martindale and Leslie Ellen Shear

The emperor has no clothes: A systemic view of the status and future of child custody evaluation (CCE) –

Benjamin D. Garber

Identifying and managing evaluator biases in parenting plan evaluations – Lindsey Sank Davis and Philip M. Stahl

To recommend or not recommend: That is still the question – Lawrence Jay Braunstein and Jeffrey P. Wittmann

Hybrid processes within parenting plan assessments: Rationale and an illustrative model – Robert A. Simon

and Arnold T. Shienvold

Practice tips for managing challenges in parenting capacity assessments in child protection court –

Krissie Fernandez Smith and Phillip C. O’Donnell

The admissibility and persuasiveness of expert evidence – Thomas Altobelli and Bruce Gordon Smith

Articles

Judicial decision-making in family court involving children with autism spectrum disorder – Emilie Lahaie, Karine Poitras

and Rachel Birnbaum

Returning to the child welfare system: Understanding the wellbeing, health, education, and placement of children

who return – Megan Suzanne Irgens, Keren-Or Givol, Claire S. Tomlinson and Ryan Davidson

The utility of trauma evaluations in judicial decision-making in child sex traff‌i cking cases: A qualitative analysis –

Ginny Sprang, Sarah Ascienzo, Chelsea Atwater and Jennifer Cole

Student Notes

Sweet dreams are made of this: The need for narrowly tailored statutory protection for documented dreamers –

Emily Fontanetta

When I grow up... I don’t want to be broke: The problems with child actor trust fund requirements – Leah Gaydos

How I met your mother: Mitigating forced marriage in the United States – Maisha Imam

Family Law Writing Competition Winner

Why is it taking so long to move down the road?: Creating a regional border agreement in the DMV as an

alternative for the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children – Katriina Rose Juntunen

An Interdisciplinary Journal

FAMILY COURT REVIEW

Volume 61 Number 4

October 2023

Leading dialogue in family court research,

policy and practice for more than half a century

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AFCC is the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts— an interdisciplinary and

international association of professionals dedicated to improving the lives of children

and families through the resolution of family conf‌l ict. AFCC brings together members of

multiple disciplines in the private, public and nonprof‌i t sectors from all over the world. AFCC

is unique because members do not share a common profession. Instead, AFCC members

share a strong commitment to education, innovation and collaboration in order to benef‌i t

communities, empower families and promote a healthy future for children.

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