Dr. Sanford Braver examined lay people’s judgments about how hypothetical cases involving child custody after divorce should be resolved. The study, published in the journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law, relied on surveys from individuals in a Pima County jury pool. In the first study, the participants were asked to judge a series of hypothetical cases where parents each provided different child care duties prior to their [...]
While I know of no state in the United States that does not, in divorce, award physical custody of minor children based on the “best interests of the child” standard, the definition of “the best interests of the children” is rapidly shifting in the United States from a presumption of sole physical custody in one party to joint physical custody shared by both [...]