What happens after a child custody evaluation?
The result of a child custody evaluation. At the end of the report, everybody always turns to recommendations first. Because everything prior is what built up to their recommendations, their explanations. The recommendations are saying how the custody will go, and we think about custody in two ways. There is legal custody, where the person legally is responsible for all of the serious decisions over that child’s life. If it’s share legal custody, the parents must consult with each other and come to a consensus about what school and medical care and all of that, so share legal custody. And then there’s physical custody. So one parent often has primary custody, and the other parent has a secondary custody, or could be in the position of visiting with their children and the evaluator will make recommendations as to how that should go. They are not the judge, so they can’t make that decision, but they make recommendations. They also make recommendations about many different things related
