CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Custody and Visitation
......Evidentiary Issues: Selected
.........Expert Witnesses
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Court may appoint experts to investigate, render report and testify, and court may fix compensation.

Expert's compensation may be apportioned between parties.

Expert to rebut Evid. Code 730 expert.

Trial court erred in failing to continue hearing to permit H to present expert witness and in appointing W's expert to conduct section 730 evaluation where moveaway not yet an issue.

Essence of intelligent judging to not merely rubberstamp sole expert’s advice, but come up with new modification answering problems shown by parties’ experience and noted by expert.

Trial court need not adopt opinions of experts but may fashion own conclusions from evidence they present.

Court may order psychiatric examination of family and appoint expert for this purpose.