Commissioned in August of 2009 by the state of California, an audit of the family court systems in Marin and Sacramento counties has found problems, including underqualified mediators and investigators and poor tracking of complaints against mediators and evaluators.
The audit was peformed by the California Joint Legislative Audit Committee based on a request by Senator Mark Leno. A number of litigants involved in family court systems throughout the world have complained of problematic and unfair treatment, including evaluators with strong recommending power who have potential conflicts of interest, with complaints of abusive parents receiving significant custody and visitation while protective parents are punished. In this case, California investigators focused the audit on Marin and Sacramento counties, where criticism has been particularly strong.
The investigator's report released yesterday issued 13 recommendations, all of which the courts have indicated they intend to follow. While the courts and the critics have chosen to interpret the report differently and the controversy is far from over, the investigator intends to continue reviewing progress of implementation of the recommendations, with meetings between auditors and court officials slated to take place three times next year to monitor compliance. According to Senator Mark Leno, if the courts do not satisfactorily implement the report's recommendations, there will be "legislative response to bring them into compliance."
You can read a summary and the full auditor's report at this link: http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/summary/2009-109
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The same things are going on in San Diego but worse. In San Diego County they have violated Rules of Court over Evaluators for a decade — the only County in the State where countywide non-application of mandatory rules have been remiss. They did this intentionally, consciously, and are currently ignoring the problem and trying to hide it. Read about it at http://www.thepubliccourt.com/ Be sure to read http://www.thepubliccourt.com/custody-evaluators-2 You must also read http://www.thepubliccourt.com/archives/1 All of these section have material evidence of con-artist fraud Evaluators, and WHO, HOW, and WHY they are doing what they are doing. The Judges would rather honor "cat credentialed" Evaluators and Mediators than the real Board Certified from the ABPP/ABFP. When you read http://www.thepubliccourt.com/custody-evaluators-2 you will see why the Press and the AOC has mentioned only Mediators. The problems exist with Evaluators as well, but they want to hide the most egregious Countywide corruption over these matters that have been going on in San Diego parallel with Sacramento and Marin. The whole Nation is at high risk from the "cat credentialed" psychologists. The only REAL Board Certified are the ABPP/ABFP. If they don't have certs. from the ABPP they are not worth it.
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