The Routledge International Handbook of Shared Parenting and Best Interest of the Child

Introduction

1 Children’s experiences of shared care

2 Shared parenting: Twelve experts exchange views in panel discussions 27

3 Joint versus sole physical custody: Which is best for children?

4 Best interest of the child: “A” or “the” primary consideration?

5 Does joint physical custody “cause” children’s better outcomes?

Sanford L. Braver and Ashley M. Votruba

6 When children’s rights are undermined in the name of the ‘best interests of the child’: Switzerland’s long road to

child- centred custody legislation

7 Rights and guarantees of unaccompanied minors: Researching the best interest of the child principle in the Spanish welfare state

8 The right of parents to ensure the religious and moral education of their children: Parental confl icts— an analysis of Spanish case law

9 The best interests of the child in shared parenting judgments according to Spanish law

10 Informational physiology of individual development

11 Shared parenting as a protective factor in children’s and adults’ health

12 Legislation and family: Divorce and granting of custody

13 Family structure, parental practices, and child wellbeing in post- divorce situations: The case of shared parenting

14 Factors that aff ect judicial decisions in relocation cases: Bridging the gap between the empirical evidence and

socio- legal practice

Yoav Mazeh

15 Shared parenting versus relocation disputes

16 Shared parenting and fi nancial interests

17 Having additional children: Should the state regulate family relations?

18 Shared parenting as preventive of parental alienation

19 Shared parenting and politics: Background of equal opportunities in the German context

20 Child sexual abuse, parental alienation syndrome and custody

21 Parental alienation syndrome and the ‘friendly parent’ concept as examples of perversion of the system

22 Compensation for “parental alienation”: Analysis of ECtHR Judgement 23641/ 17

Hildegund Sünderhauf- Kravets and Martin Widrig

23 The Cooperative Parenting Triangle: A tool to help divorced parents

24 Mandatory mediation and legal presumption for shared parenting

Hildegund Sünderhauf- Kravets

25 Parenting coordination as an alternative dispute resolution system in Spanish family law

26 PIFE – an intervention aimed at restoring the parent– child bond ruptured by acute separation conflict or parental alienation

27 Co- responsibility plan and shared parenting

28 Recent developments in shared parenting in Western countries

29 What happens when there is presumptive 50/ 50 parenting time? An evaluation of Arizona’s new child custody statute

30 The best interests of the child and parental authority in Philippine family law

31 Meeting their parents: A right always ignored for divorce- aff ected minors

32 The best interest of the child in the case law of the Spanish Supreme Court

33 Divorce and loss of paternal contact: A perspective from Norway

34 Trying to put shared parenting into Scottish law

35 Features of joint custody and shared parenting in Slovakia

36 The merits of the “Zaunegger approach” of the European Court of Human Rights

Conclusion

Biography

José Manuel de Torres Perea is Associate Professor of Civil Law at the University of Málaga, Spain, specialising in Family Law. He is the author of significant contributions on shared parenting and the best interests of the child in Spanish legal literature.

Edward Kruk is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, specialising in child and family policy. He has published extensively on shared parental responsibility, child custody determination, parental alienation, family mediation and the role of fathers in child development. He is the inaugural president of the International Council on Shared Parenting (ICSP).

Margarita Ortiz-Tallo is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Málaga, Spain, and has lectured in several countries. She has written numerous articles published in scientific journals, several specialist books on psychopathology and books for the general public on different psychological subjects.