California's "730" Evaluation

Family courts rely heavily on the 730 evaluation results. Make sure you have been properly represented.

This includes preparing for your home study, 730 evaluation (or whatever they call it in our jurisdiction).

There are problems you will encounter if your not properly prepared. Seeing a variety of completed evaluations will help you understand what the evaluators are looking for during a home study.

Win shows you how ...

• Evaluator's experience or bias can be challenged.
• Evaluation procedures can be challenged.
• Statements in the evaluation may be removed for cause.
• Evaluations can be discredited and a new evaluation ordered.

Testing results should only be part of the picture of a person. The danger is that some evaluator's over interpret the data, rather use personal interviews and consistency of all data to formulate a useable prediction of the parent and his or her ability to meet the needs of the child(ren).

The library and bookstore that will explain psychological testing methods and how they work. Reading any of them help put you in the proper frame of mind and give you an insight.

These important attitudes, concepts and questions can't be addressed lightly. Your case is more complicated than the "one-answer-fits-all" formula.

The most common test is the MM PI. (Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory), the Million, Parental Stress test, Parent/child sentence completion test, and several others. The MM PI-II has the most weight.

A relationship history and observation of any conflict between the two of you is established.

Passive observations from a distance and direct questions of the parent and child(ren) are the basis for this part of the evaluation.

This gives the evaluator and the parent an opportunity to ask and answer specific areas and questions of concern.

• Other Parent Is A Chameleon
• There Are Horrible Things The Evaluator Needs To Know
• Fighting Influence & Money
• They Have Accused Me Of Everything
• Huge Discrepancies In Parenting Ability
• PAS, Malicious Parent or Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
• They Lie About Everything
• Lying to custody evaluator is very dangerous

The 'Win"' book shows you how to document the truth and present it to the evaluator.

Gain and maintain the proper mind-set.
Ease the stress for your children.
Prepare yourself.
Separate issues and non-issues.
Furnish documentation.
Present information that may not offer in any other venue.
Identify your concerns about the other parent.
Answer questions from the professional.
Respond to insulting or untrue information from opposition.
Understand which information you can have suppressed in court.
Know when and how to complain about an unfair evaluation.
Eradicate problems the evaluation says you have.