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The objective of this study is to approach the opinion that men and women have about the type of custody desired to be established in the event of marital breakdown, an aspect that has not been analyzed in Spain until now. Methodological triangulation is used for this purpose using quantitative and qualitative techniques. The results indicate that aspects such as the gender of the spouses, ideology or income level are key to understanding what type of custody is desired in the event of divorce. The main conclusion highlights the existence of a dissonance between the most desired custody option after the breakup of the couple and what actually happens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper offers a review of the literature on Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) in Spain during the last ten years (2010-2020) and it distinguishes between supporters and detractors of the construct. The polarized positions around the construct have revealed a conflict between Psychology and Law. At stake is how diagnostics and judicial pronouncements are related. A collaboration, in an interdisciplinary key, between the clinical perspective and the forensic perspective is missed. The system of custody of minors has played a very important role in the judicial invocation of PAS construct. This situation has changed with the adoption of the jurisprudential criterion favorable to Shared custody, as a general rule, as of 2013. The latest judicial resolutions use terminology far from PAS. The Therapeutic Justice new legal paradigm can serve to articulate new forms of relationship between Psychology and Law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the complicated exercise of parental authority in marital crises. Starting from the general rule of the joint exercise, it is then studied the assumptions of partial or total attribution to one of the parents, or of distribution of the functions between them. The content of parental authority in these situations is expressed by assigning custody of the children to one of the parents or opting for shared custody. In the first case, it is necessary to complete this attribution with a system of visits and communication for the other non-custodial parent. This article carefully studies aspects such as the jurisprudential criteria for the attribution of joint custody, as well as the criteria for specifying the periods of time and those related to alimony and the attribution of the family home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The aim of this consensus statement is, therefore, to enhance understanding, counter misinformation, and steer family-court utilisation of attachment theory in a supportive, evidence-based direction, especially with regard to child protection and child custody decision-making. This article is divided into two parts. In the first part, we address problems related to the use of attachment theory and research in family courts, and discuss reasons for these problems. To this end, we examine family court applications of attachment theory in the current context of the best-interest-of-the-child standard, discuss misunderstandings regarding attachment theory, and identify factors that have hindered accurate implementation. In the second part, we provide recommendations for the application of attachment theory and research. To this end, we set out three attachment principles: the child's need for familiar, non-abusive caregivers; the value of continuity of good-enough care; and the benefits of networks of attachment relationships. We also discuss the suitability of assessments of attachment quality and caregiving behaviour to inform family court decision-making. We conclude that assessments of caregiver behaviour should take center stage. Although there is dissensus among us regarding the use of assessments of attachment quality to inform child custody and child-protection decisions, such assessments are currently most suitable for targeting and directing supportive interventions. Finally, we provide directions to guide future interdisciplinary research collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Suspension of custody as a right of the child may lead to psychosocial risks considered as potential dangers to the well-being of the child, his family or his community in various dimensions. It is therefore important to consider the possibility of these psychosocial risks when making these judicial decisions about the loss of parental rights. The phenomenon of psychosocial risk has been more studied in working environments and also linked to health problems. This fact assigns a new connotation to this study, since it opens the door to the interdisciplinarity from Psychology and Law, when investigating if the psychosocial risks in the judicial decisions on loss of parental authority are taken into account. The research aims to identify psychosocial risks considered by family judges in decisions about loss of custody. The type and design research is qualitative, since one of its general pretensions is the understanding. The sources of information are two. The first corresponds to 50 pre-selected court documents in the Colombian cities of Bogota, Tunja and Duitama. The other is a group interview with 8 family judges. The documents were analyzed by means of a protocol. For the design and implementation of the protocol, categories oriented by interdisciplinary research team objectives, theoretical support and expectations were made. The interview consisted of a focus group interview with family judges (four men and four women). The audio of the interview was transcribed literally and an inductive categorical analysis was made. Results of the analysis of the interview and documents were contrasted. Judicial documents reviewed show that judges use syllogistic logic when seeking to accommodate situations to the causal. Within the judicial decisions it is observed that the best interest of the minor is not privileged. The analysis of the interview in which the use of experience and intuition is observed following a realistic logic, invites us to reflect on aspects such as: the subjectivity of judges in the evaluation, the pressure they face on the number of lawsuits and the speed of judgment, and the need to revise the causal deprivation of liberty superior to one year. The judges manifest a deficit in the interdisciplinary work and the lack of more training in aspects of mental health that would make possible the use of psychological reports and the greater understanding of causes such as disability. It was possible to identify a pattern that leads to the decision of loss of custody power by abandonment (most common causal): (1) Search for legal advice. (2) To promote the notoriety of the physical and emotional distance between the defendant and the child. (3) Establish the claim. (4) Accumulate evidential evidence on the causal. (5) Obtain witnesses. In the discussion generated in the group interview, judges recognize psychosocial risks that are not exposed in the court document or sentence. Finally there is the need to assess in more detail the relational history of the parental couple, as they tend to be psychological consequences that affect parenting skills. The discussion between the researchers of Family Psychology and those of Family Law appear questions that build an interdisciplinary bridge. One limitation of the study was that it was not possible to have sufficient time and resources to conduct group and individual interviews with a greater number of family judges in other cities of the country and achieve more generalizable results. The research question on whether judges take into account the risks to make the decisions is answered that it attends to the grounds provided in the law taking the decision guided by the syllogistic logic. Causals can be equated with psychosocial risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study takes as a reference the change of Law 15/2005 in the Spanish Civil Code where the concept of shared custody was first introduced in Spain. The objective of this study is to check if a relationship exists between the results of investigations with an empirical base and the judicial decision when considering the effects that shared custody produces in children. With that objective in mind we carried out a qualitative analysis of the investigations related to joint custody consequences, both at national and international level. Then, after carrying out an analysis of the jurisprudence of the Spanish Supreme Court from 2005 to 2015, we compared the results of the investigations with judges' decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo discurre sobre los aspectos jurídicos de la alienación parental y su relación con los derechos fundamentales de los niños. El autor comenta sobre el estado de la cuestión en el sistema jurídico de Peru y describe las leyes asociadas con la custodia de los niños después de una separación o un divorcio.

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El artículo discurre sobre los estereotipos asociados con el género, con un enfoque en la preferencia maternal en la custodia de menores. Los autores comentan sobre el desarrollo de estas preconcepciones sociales y describen la legislación latinoamericana relacionada con el cuidado de los menores, la cual típicamente dice que las mujeres son más aptas que los hombres.

The expert opinion, requested by a party, or by lot of judicial time professional intervention, is directed to the judge and must be adjusted to the need to provide advice on the demand of the judge. It involves identifying which issues should or should not be included. To conduct the analysis, the forensic psychologist must know the demand of the judge and the data it needs from his or her professional knowledge. The aim of the article is to review the legal concepts that will help to guide the professional praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work was to observe the impact of the Valencian Regional Government's Act 5/2011 on "Family relationships of children whose parents do not live together", throughout demanding processes trying to change previous judgments on custody. To do so, a comparative analysis was performed of this type of processes in a Family Court in the Valencian Region, during 2011 and 2012. Specifically, 261 processes were compared: 134 from the year before the law came into effect (2011) and 127 from the year immediately after it came into force (2012). Results showed that during the first year following the enactment of the law there was a slight decrease in the number of these demanding processes. Furthermore, contrary to expectations, the reduction of child support (versus a real co-parenting distribution of time and resources) was the main motivation presented to initiate these contested processes in 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Forensic evaluation of parents litigating for custody comprises the assessment of the parental attributes and of favourable self-reporting. As for this, a multi-method evaluation approach is adopted, including psychometric tests, particularly the 16 PF-5 as a reference questionnaire. With the aim of knowing if the litigant parents are able to present a self-favorable report on the 16 PF-5, the strategies followed to fake good, and the effects of faking good on the primary and global scales, 488 parents, 244 in child custody litigation and 244 parents under standard instructions, answered the Spanish adaptation of the 16 PF-5. The results showed that litigant parents biased their responses; that they manipulated their impression and avoided infrequent responses; and that their manipulation is related to the exaggeration of positive attributes and the concealment or denial of the negative ones. The implications of the findings for forensic psychologist practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of the Spanish judicial sentences (Arce, Fariña, & Seijo, 2005) in 2005 found that there was not legal reasoning in the decisions of courts and judges concerning litigant custody proceedings. A new law was promulgated on separation and divorce issues, Act 15/2005. Seven years after the promulgation of this law, an archival study of judicial reasoning was carried out to know its effects on sentencing. In this study, 468 custody litigant judicial sentences since 2005 were randomly selected –resulting in 71.5% custodies assigned to the mother and 22.5% to the father. A reliable and valid systematic content analysis identified the legal reasons for custody and their relation to parental gender. The study showed that all sentences were motivated. The most relevant reasons for custody assignation were the following: being primary caregiver, time availability, adverse events experienced by the child in his/her life with his or her parents, enhancing child's overall development and satisfaction of needs, extensive family support, better child's living conditions, and parental personality characteristics. Father custody assignment was associated with the three latter characteristics. Implications of results for forensic psychological evaluation of child custody are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article studies the different ways in which a group of reconstituted families had settled the residence of their children. One of the characteristics of these families is that their members don't live in the same house. There are different residential arrangements, but the families that had been interviewed, mothers and their children usually live together. This promotes different ways of relationship between stepfather and their stepchildren, and stepmother and her husband's children. These differences can be understood from a gender perspective, when the mother is expected to take care, breed and educate her children. When the stepmother does this work, stepchildren reject her authority, and there are constant conflicts in daily life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is about the STC 185/2012, which asserted the unconstitutionality the «favorable» term as a prerequisite of the report of the Public Prosecutor which the legislator established so the judge could impose the joint custody of the children by their parents separated when they disagreed among themselves for that type of custody. The unconstitutionality declared is twofold: because such regulation violated the principle of jurisdictional reservation in favor of the judges and courts proclaimed in the art. 117.3 CE, and because it quite the right to effective judicial protection guaranteed in the art. 24.1 CE. The decision has a dissenting opinion signed by four judges, which denies such studs: on the one side, taking as examples some legal determinations envelope whose constitutionality is no doubt and, that consequently warrantee the questioned regulation; on the other side, and above all, founding that his trial constitutional conformity in the Court's doctrine about the notion of «normative density», which covers the legislator to regulate detail matters. The comment aims to demonstrate that the examples that are compared in the dissenting opinion declared unconstitutional regulation are not comparable to this, and that such a constitutional doctrine about the «normative density» was not applicable either to the same. So the impossibility that the judge imposed the shared custody of children in case of disagreement of the parents about it if the report of the Prosecutor was opposite (or simply neutral or non-existent) was, indeed, non-conforming with the jurisdictional exclusivity of the judges and violated the right to effective judicial protection at stake in such cases [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to delve into the problems that arise in forensic assessments at the time to study family conflicts in which children are used as weapons to discredit and nullify one of the parents, when they generally remain as an important and decisive part in the resolutions, and how the term "interest of the child" is used, and assess whether the demands of parents and the court decisions taken are truly based on the "interest of the child." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article focuses on the fundamental legal and ownership-related issues on the guardianship of minors, beginning with an examination of the diverse interests implicated in connection with ownership, guardianship of minors, and the legal responsibilities of guardians. The article examines the legal concepts of the administration of minors' assets and their legal representation and offers an objective definition of assets falling outside the legal scope of the guardian's administration. The discussion turns to an explanation of the manner in which guardians should act and it describes the supervisory framework and prohibitions in connection with such actions. The article then presents the legal restrictions on the action of the tutor and it features the actions of the tutor that are subject to judicial authorization. The article concludes by reflecting on the problematic balance between the autonomy of the guardian and the necessity of judicial control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a theoretical review of the difficulties and benefits of using psychological assessment tools directed toward adults in forensic evaluations of child custody. We discussed: (1) the international information available about the use of psychological tests in these assessments, with a special focus on Spanish reality and (2) a summary of the legal conditions for the admissibility of these tests in the North-American and Spanish contexts. A critical analysis of the more used tools is performed in our context of the assessment in adults, providing useful considerations for technicians in relation to the application of such tools in child custody evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the state of correctional facilities for minors in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines the use of the Argentine navy force as a method of punishment for juvenile orphans and disobedient youth. The author analyzes the punitive practices carried out in various institutions in Buenos Aires during this time period. He also studies the law regarding the custody, deposit, protection, and education of minors. The role of the Defensorías de Menores and the Asilo de Huérfanos, institutions dedicated to the protection of youth, organized by the Sociedad de Beneficencia of Buenos Aires, is also explored.

Our objective is to analyze the support received from the ex partner in a sample of Spanish divorced parents. Participants in the present study were 223 parents, 130 mothers and 93 fathers, precedent from 15 communities from the Spanish state. Mothers and fathers, custodial and non-custodial parents reported to receive similar levels of support from ex partners. Multiple regression analysis showed that a 60% of the variance of support from ex partners is explained by respondent's own adjustment to divorce, his/her attachment style, low levels of positive affectivity and socio-cultural level. The results are analyzed to the light of the importance of post-divorce coparenting in the adequate development of children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Has been done a study of 200 files about families in the region of Murcia, in which it has been asked for an expert psychological evaluation because of the request from both parents of the custody of their children. Through the analysis of the male parents petition it has been done a classification about the origin of their reasons to ask for the custody: • Petition of equal rights and care for the children. • It is alleged bad caring from the mothers to he children (because of mental problems, drugs abuse and physical abuse). • The children express their wish of living with him. • Existence of a PAS. • Economic interest. • With no reason. In each one of the requests it has been valued the age, the sex of the children and the opinion from the other parent. It is analysed the expert evaluation and the reasons in which the custody is based from the psychologist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Divorce is one of the most stressful moments in adults' lives. After the marital dissolution, ex-partners have to face many changes and challenges. The psychological literature has given priority to the study of the negative consequences of divorce in the developmental pathways of all members of the family, through exhaustive research of adjustment problems that would prove that divorce is itself a factor of emotional destabilization and risk for psychological disorder. However, currently, there are lines of research that are distant from this view, focusing on the possibilities of positive development that can germinate with a divorce. Thus, divorce adjustment is not seen as a process of cumulative losses but, rather, as a potential qualitative process characterized by new life goals, skills improvement, and bigger intimate and emotional maturity. This article proposes a conceptualization of divorce adjustment as being measured by the qualitative result of a sequence of integrated developmental changes, where more advanced levels of development, which somehow are also more differentiated, must integrate and overcome the previous and instrumental levels in divorce adjustment. Finally, the theoretical difficulties existing in the literature to define positive development are introduced, as well the methodological procedures used to understand these pathways of human growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article embarks on a detailed investigation into the juridical, psychological and anthropological aspects of Interparental kidnapping of minor children in Bogotá and the violation of custodial and visiting rights of mothers or fathers with respect to their children. During this research, we became interested in finding out if this problem also appears in indigenous communities, and which factors might contribute to that. The article revises the concepts of juridical anthropology and interlegality or legal pluralism, to understand the role that local juridical systems play in managing this problem. Furthermore, we undertake a brief reflection about the children's and teenager's rights in those communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author states that the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction has a shortage concerning the right of access. Children fundamental right to keep in contact with their parents is the main factor to be considered with a view to organizing the custody right, but also in order to prevent illicit movements from one country to another. The paper recalls the difficulties encountered when interpreting art, 21 Child Abduction Convention; it also shows how restricted its efficacy is. Finally, it emphasizes the latest Spanish judicial modus operandi, in that they follow a wide interpretation that enables the Central Authorities to act before the courts claiming the organisation of the right of search. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes, from a critical perspective, the Law Nr. 42, 21St November 2003, which modified the Spanish Civil Code and the Procedural Code in matters related to family relationships between grandchildren and grandparents. The author points the problems of an unnecessary and confused reform through the study of the two modified institutions, grandparents' custody and visiting rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]