psych eval

[WhatToDo]

Hi Soc! Hope your day is going good!

I have joint- custody of my 6 year old daughter. 2 1/2 years ago my ex went to federal prison for 15 months. A psych evaluation was done on my ex and the results were brought out in her hearing. I now have the court records of everything that was said that day in court about what her Psych Evaluation said about her. When my ex and I go to court over custody:

1. Can I try to use these documents against her?

2. Will they be much use since it was 2 1/2 years ago when the evaluation was done?

Thank you!

[socrateaser]

>1. Can I try to use these documents against her?

If they are relevant to her current fitness as a parent, then probably yes. But, they could be objected to on grounds of relevance, or significantly discredited by a newer eval submitted by the other parent.

I think the judge will allow the old eval, but may not give it much weight, unless you use that eval as a basis for requesting a new evaluation order, so as to determine if things have improved, stayed the same, or degraded in the 2.5 intervening years.

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>2. Will they be much use since it was 2 1/2 years ago when the
>evaluation was done?

See above.

[WhatToDo]

The evaluation says that she's a pathalogical liar, that she failed 6 out of 7 drug tests and that she continuously broke the rules while staying at a halfway house resulting in her being kicked out . I think those would be good reasons to at least request a new evaluation!

Thanks again!