[ValerieUSA]

Why the hell didn't the court order a psychiatric evaluation?

[Archangelsk]

Why the hell didn't the court order a psychiatric evaluation?

Who the hell knows?

[Syncro]

It's amazing how many times Judges dismiss a restraining order and someone gets hurt.

But many people just ignore them, they need to be locked up after the first violation.

Psych Evaluations some times do no good at all even if the man comes out really bad on it.

But everything possible should be done, sometimes it works.

[ejo]

Just perused your homepage....Magnificent pictures ....Now why couldn't this 'dunderhead' see the awesomeness of the Almighty at work, and he could have avoided this mayhem...

[Mercat]

Sadly, the stuff leading up to this tragedy is heard over and over again in custody cases. The judge probably wanted to order a psych eval but who was going to pay for it. It typically costs between $3-10,000.00. Some of the larger counties have a home study process but that's usually done by just out of school ditsy social workers who have no children or live experience. They hit it right about one/half of the time. Not very good odds. Fact is, can't protect the children if the parents go nuts. I've been doing custody law for 28 years. Never had a child die. Had a few parties off themselves. Was at the court house twice when parties took their lives.. one also killed his wife. All of which is why I am going to try to work myself out of the litigation business in the next year. It's just too hard not to mention corrupts my soul and Pope JPII said to get out of the business too.