title: Psychiatry and family law in Western Australia.
abstract: The use of psychiatric evidence in Family Law Courts considering custody disputes is questioned. It is postulated that such evidence if often prejudiced, not always related to parental competence, and is morally and politically questionable.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D004243:Divorce; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007872:Legal Guardians; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis