Alienated Parents Association, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, supports frequent and continuing relationships between children, parents, and other family members as an fundamental right that shall not be altered by intimidation, practice, or statute. Fundamental rights are not relinquished by signing a constitution, a settlement agreement, or anything else. APA supports executive and judicial orders, policies, and laws, to virtually eliminate the use of custody evaluations. Custody evaluations, even when well intended, result in the worst of lawyering and the worst of mental health practice, making Colorado the worst state in which to raise a child. After extensive literature search and interviews with many professionals, Alienated Parents Association has been unable to discover any scientific support or even any research of custody evaluations.
Custody evaluations bankrupt the dividing-family both emotionally and financially.
Recovery from custody evaluations is almost impossible even for children and parents with considerable resources for post-evaluation therapy and spiritual treatments. Boulder now has therapists that specialize in post-evaluation therapy. Likewise, parents become immobile, lose their health, and often abandon the child to relieve the overwhelming pain of the loss of a child. Custody evaluations are a common portal to perjury, fraud, civil rights violations, racism, gender bias, and practice for profit, exposing the State of Colorado to international criticism and expensive grievances, litigation and demands for settlements. The outrageous conduct of these undisciplined practitioners extends to the deliberate formation of referral cartels, exploitation of case conferences, and public presentation of confidential information.