CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Judicial Officers/Referees/Masters
.........Referees/Special Masters
............Child Custody Matters
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Use of special masters in child custody matters.

Special Masters encouraged in high conflict custody cases.

Psych. Board had jurisdiction to discipline psychologist acting as special master in FL proceedings because he was actually acting as a psychologist and engaged in dishonest behavior; not acting as “subordinate judicial official.”