How do I prepare for a "child custody evaluation"?
It is so vitally important that parents prepare for a child custody evaluation. I've seen disasters where people just walk in and shoot from the hip. This is not the best way to go and that's why I wrote my book, "Creating a Successful Parenting Plan: a Step-by-Step Guide to the Care of Children and Divided Families," because I saw one disaster after another at child custody evaluations. Good people ended up in a horrible place around the custody of their children, maybe even lost their children. I also see that if they'd walked into the child custody evaluation prepared they would have had a much better shot at a positive outcome. How to prepare for a child custody evaluation? It's vital you prepare a parenting plan for the child custody evaluation, through two that chronology, three, the person who carries out the child custody evaluation will give you an extensive questionnaire asking you about your family. Prepare that with a great deal of care. Don't lie. If the child custody evaluator catches you in a lie, this is not a good thing. The child custody evaluation service do not expect that you're perfect and they look for lies. Do you have enough of a grasp on yourself that you accept personal responsibility for your past thoughts, feelings and actions in the child custody evaluation. So if you have had a drug problem, if you have had a D.U.I, if you have had some history, be forthcoming about it in the child custody evaluation and then say what you have done about it.
