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This chapter reviews literature examining what influences judges’ decision making, and specifically how much influence custody reports have on this decision making. This chapter also introduces hypotheses of a randomly controlled trial of family court judges’ evaluation of custody evaluations based on the Egregious/Promotive Factors Model, or an unspecified constructs model.
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Tolle, L.W., O’Donohue, W.T. (2012). A Preliminary Validation Study of the Model. In: Improving the Quality of Child Custody Evaluations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3405-4_5
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