Child Custody and Domestic Violence: Are the Courts Protecting Kids?

Consider a custody case that involves domestic abuse and children. Is it possible that a protective parent could lose custody of their child to a named abuser? Yes. In this episode, Toby Kleinman, attorney and national expert in child custody, takes on this frightening reality. Drawing upon her soon to be released book, co-authored with Daniel Pollack Domestic Abuse, Child Custody and Visitation: Winning in Court, she offers a close and well informed look at the Family Court System. She illuminates the 'Great Judicial Fallacy' and provides specific guidance to lawyers, mental health professionals and battered women facing child custody litigation with an abusive ex-partner. Listeners will hear crucial information for navigating the often-hostile legal terrain faced by battered women trying to protect their children. Finally someone has some answers.