Soc, if possible, can you reply by Friday April 9?

[DecentDad]

Hi Soc,

I'd love to get your thought on this.

We're rounding down 6 months of 730 eval with a clinical psychologist who was recommended to me.  Evidence shows that biomom is a routine liar, perhaps mentally unstable.  Plenty of witnesses, video show that I'm an involved good dad to 4 year old daughter, and I completed a 30 hour parenting course.

Evaluator said he'd have report done by end of March.  Last week, he told me he'd have report done this week.  Invoice shows that while I was done with him on March 5, biomom has met with him several times since.  He told me he'd contact me if he had any concerns, and he hasn't asked me about anything further.

This week, she submitted a recording she made of herself with our child, asking the child leading questions about me locking her up, why do I lock her up, what does my wife do when I lock her up, etc.  There's no context provided, nor date.  I can tell that it's not daughter speaking naturally, but don't know if an outsider would note the differences in her voice.

I found out about this today.  I scheduled a polygraph for tomorrow to answer that I've never locked up child in any way (along with answering on a couple other issues that evidence hasn't shown which side of he-said-she-said is true).

Neither evaluator nor opposing counsel know that I'm taking a polygraph.

Though I've mentioned my suspicions to evaluator that biomom poisons our daughter, this is really the only evidence that could show it, provided evaluator doesn't take the content as valid.

Biomom has long history of flinging crap at me, with no evidence behind it (including 9-1-1 call that put me in jail, charges subsequently dropped by prosecutor).

We have trial scheduled on April 22.

1.  Does taking a polygraph before the evaluator even comments on this (if at all) sound like overkill?  Or does it have nothing but positive value if the results show no deception?

Thanks much man.

DD

[socrateaser]

>1.  Does taking a polygraph before the evaluator even comments
>on this (if at all) sound like overkill?  Or does it have
>nothing but positive value if the results show no deception?

It's an interesting method of disproving the other parent's claims. The polygraph isn't admissible without both parties' consent, but your attempt to introduce it and your ex's refusal could move the court to believe that she is throwing grenades.

If you're really worried about this being a lie, then you should consider having a therapist evaluate the child and you separately and then testify that in the shrink's expert opinion, this claimed events never took place.

It's a toughy. You certainly have an interesting contest.

[DecentDad]

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