Dear Ms. McKay,
1. A couple of weeks ago we had a phone conversation regarding my request for statistical information about the child custody forensic evaluations at WJCS.
During this conversation you told me that you do not do recommendations with respect to custody of children.
However, the Court Order for forensic evaluation that you have send me yesterday states in its Report part that:
“A recommendation as to residence and access arrangements that best suit the child(ren)’s emotional development and psychological needs, a recommendation with respect to the custody of the child(ren)… and any other issues with respect to which the forensic evaluator believes is appropriate to advise the Court.”
Please confirm or deny what you told me over the phone (that you do not provide recommendations with respect to child custody).
Please explain how do you plan to execute this Court Order if you do not provide the child custody recommendations, requested by it.
2. The Court Order in question states that “Matter has a domestic violence component”. Hon. Walker made a mistake here – the matter does non have domestic violence component, it rather involves allegations in domestic violence, which I’m fighting in the criminal courts in Stamford, CT and White Plains, NY (I requested a jury trial in WP).
3. I have serious concerns about the part of the Court Order regarding the confidentiality of the Forensic Evaluator’s Report. I find inadmissible the possibility stated in the Order that the report won’t be accessible to the concerned parties (my wife and me).
4. Let me point to your attention that my son was forcibly alienated from me during the last 6 months. In the period from November 1, 2005 to April 6, 2005 I was allowed to see him only 7 times under the WP YWCA supervised visitations program.
Since April 6 I’m only allowed to see my son for 4 hours a week.
During the last six months my son was kept isolated (my wife stopped him from the two schools he used to attend).
I was systematically disparaged in the eyes of my son by my wife.
I strongly believe that before any forensic evaluation with regards to the custody takes place, my son and I should be allowed to have more substantial parenting time (3.5 days a week) in order to revert the alienation process.
I’m ready and willing to discuss more in depth with you on how to revert this unnatural alienation process in order to insure proper and fair forensic evaluation.
Please postpone my appointment with Dr Schiller scheduled for May 8, until the matters in 1, 3 and 4 are clarified.
Kind Regards,
Peter Petrov
phone: 914-309-7463
e-mail: peter@letq.com
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From: Peter Petrov
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:00 PM
To: 'kmckay@wjcs.com'
Subject: Request for Info
Dear Mrs. McKay,
I'm divorcing my wife and the Court will probably offer forensic evaluations at WJCS to help determine the custody of my 5 years old son.
I would like to have some statistical information about the evaluations performed by WJCS.
This would help me to make sure that your evaluations are not unacceptably gender biased.
I'll appreciate if you can send me recent statistics on:
1. What is the percentage of custody recommended for fathers/mothers for 2 to 10 years old children (or 5-year-old children or children between 0 and 10, 4 and 6, etc)?
2. What are the percentages from 1 when both parents are from the same race?
3. What are the percentages from 1 when both parents had physical custody during the evaluation (first time custody battle)?
4. How the figures from 1 vary in the latest few years?
5. How many court ordered custody evaluations do you perform yearly?
6. Do you have statistic on how often the final Court ruling follows your recommendations?
7. How the figures from 6 vary for recommended custody for mothers and fathers.
I don't expect you to have exactly the same statistics as above; I'll appreciate anything close or anything that could help me evaluate the effect of possible gender bias.
Thank you,
Peter Petrov
phone: 914-309-7463
e-mail: peter@letq.com