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Behav Sci Law. 2010 Jul-Aug;28(4):480-91. doi: 10.1002/bsl.947.
A court's order begins and directs the process of a court-appointed parenting evaluation. If the order is ill-defined, the evaluation, its conclusions, and the resulting expert opinion may be compromised. To draft a clear order, lawyers should understand the nature of a psychological evaluation, identify the legal bases and the authority in psychological literature and ethics for conducting a parenting evaluation, and establish the specific purposes for the court-ordered evaluation. Likewise, psychologists should understand these drafting issues to guard against role and ethical pitfalls in their court-appointed tasks. This paper will explore these issues. In addition, suggestions for drafting a motion petitioning the court for an evaluation are offered, and a model court order for parenting evaluations is presented.
法院命令启动并指导法院指定的亲职评估程序。如果命令定义不明确，评估、其结论和由此产生的专家意见可能会受到影响。为了起草明确的命令，律师应该了解心理评估的性质，确定在心理学文献和伦理中进行亲职评估的法律依据和权力，并确定法院命令评估的具体目的。同样，心理学家也应该了解这些起草问题，以防止在法院指定的任务中出现角色和道德陷阱。本文将探讨这些问题。此外，还提出了请求法院进行评估的动议草案的建议，并提供了一份亲职评估的模型法院命令。
