Tag: Mark Kilmer
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Jury awards $21.3M in damages in Colorado custody dispute involving false abuse allegations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jury has awarded $21.3 million in damages after finding an ex-husband corruptly manipulated his Routt County divorce proceedings to gain full custody of his children by falsely alleging his ex-wife’s new fiancé sexually abused one of the children. The mother of the three children…
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Colorado’s controversial parenting evaluators get immunity from civil lawsuits, judge rules
A Boulder County judge has ruled that Colorado’s controversial parenting evaluators enjoy immunity that protects them from lawsuits, bringing an end to plans to hold several evaluators accountable through class-action litigation. The evaluators hold great influence in custody disputes brought to courts and have been the subject of a rash of complaints of bias. In…
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Colorado parental evaluation industry faces calls for audit, tougher rules after fake Ph.D scandal
A legislator vowed to push for new laws as well as a state audit to prevent unqualified parental evaluators from continuing to put Colorado children in peril amid growing criticism from parents who say the evaluation industry has mired their custody cases in turmoil. State Rep. Meg Froelich, a Democrat from Greenwood Village, spoke out…
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Colorado parental evaluator accused of falsifying credentials sent child custody cases into turmoil — despite key warning
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A court-appointed psychologist who fixated on whether the nickname “Sleepy Melo” meant a father was a gang member unfit to parent his children turned in a child custody recommendation so flawed that a magistrate barred the psychologist in November from ever working again for his…
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Colorado child custody cases roiled by CSU professor’s controversial ‘alienation’ theory
By 2017, Katherine’s divorce case had dragged on for eight years. The litigation crushed her financially: She took out credit cards, then a second mortgage to pay those off. But she escaped her abusive ex-husband, and by 2017, four separate experts had made reports for the court recommending Katherine continue to have sole decision-making authority…
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Mother’s complaint against Colorado parental evaluator dismissed
Colorado’s Board of Psychologist Examiners dismissed a complaint filed against the license of Mark Kilmer, a high-profile parental evaluator who has said 90% of abuse allegations he hears in his work are false. The complaint was filed by a mother who had Kilmer appointed as a parental responsibility evaluator in her divorce and custody case,…
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Class-action suit filed against parental evaluator who said he disbelieves 90% of domestic violence allegations
A parental evaluator already under fire for saying he disbelieves 90% of the domestic violence allegations he hears in custody cases faced new legal woes Thursday with the filing of a lawsuit that alleges his evaluations are extremely biased and favor abusive parents. The lawsuit, filed in Boulder County District Court on behalf of six…
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Colorado custody evaluator suspended amid criticism of evaluation industry
The Colorado State Court Administrator’s Office has suspended a high-profile custody evaluator from continuing to receive court appointments following controversy over his parenting recommendations amid recent media scrutiny of the parenting evaluation industry. Jaime Watman, an official in the State Court Administrator’s Office, in a statement confirmed last week’s suspension of Mark Kilmer from ongoing…