CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Custody and Visitation
......Evidentiary Issues: Selected
.........Psychological Testing
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Psychological testing may be ordered if mental condition properly in controversy.

Super. ct. has no authority under CCP §2032.020 to authorize collateral interviews of parents as part of minor's mental examination.

Psychological testing properly denied: W’s mental condition not at issue and any such test probably irrelevant as to C.

Mother’s request to test Father’s wife and their daughter, asserting it was necessary because custody evaluator's report was biased, properly denied.

Psychotherapy may properly be ordered in appropriate custody cases.