Practice Area
Family Law, Parent-Child, and Child-Adolescent Consultation
LFPS provides forensic psychiatric consultation in matters involving children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Perossa brings board-certified child and adolescent psychiatric expertise to matters involving developmental context, parent-child relationships, bonding, and other child- and family-focused psychiatric issues. Dr. Lamoureux provides broader forensic consultation in family law matters involving complex psychiatric questions, including issues centered more directly on parents, family dynamics, and other medically and legally significant concerns arising in family court. This practice area is designed to support attorneys seeking consultation across the full range of psychiatric issues that arise in family law matters.
Legal Questions That Arise
What psychiatric or developmental factors are relevant to parental fitness?
How do the clinical findings bear on parent-child relationships and bonding?
Are the findings in an existing evaluation scientifically supported and methodologically sound?
What psychiatric factors are relevant to high-conflict family dynamics?
How does a parent's psychiatric condition affect their functioning in the parental role?
When Counsel May Seek Consultation
Counsel should consider engaging LFPS when a family law matter involves questions of parental fitness, parent-child relationships, child psychiatric issues, or the psychiatric dimensions of high-conflict family dynamics. Consultation from LFPS may also be appropriate for review and rebuttal of existing evaluations where the methodology or conclusions are in question.
Methodology
LFPS applies evidence-based diagnostic principles and established forensic frameworks to questions arising in family law matters. Evaluations are informed by careful attention to developmental context, parent-child interactions, and the synthesis of clinical data relevant to the legal questions at issue. LFPS also provides consultation and review of existing evaluations, including assessment of methodological soundness and the scientific support for the conclusions reached.
Questions about family law, parent-child, and child-adolescent consultation?
Contact us to discuss the psychiatric dimensions of your case and explore whether consultation from LFPS may be appropriate.