California Family Code

§ 3025.5

FAM § 3025.5 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 8 · Part 2 · Ch. 1

Statute text

(a)In a proceeding involving child custody or visitation rights, if a report containing psychological evaluations of a child or recommendations regarding custody of, or visitation with, a child is submitted to the court, including, but not limited to, a report created pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 3110) of this part and a recommendation made to the court pursuant to Section 3183, that information shall be contained in a document that shall be placed in the confidential portion of the court file of the proceeding, and may not be disclosed, except to the following persons:

(1)A party to the proceeding and the party’s attorney.

(2)A federal or state law enforcement officer, the licensing entity of a child custody evaluator, a judicial officer, court employee, or family court facilitator of the superior court of the county in which the action was filed, or an employee or agent of that facilitator, acting within the scope of the facilitator’s duties.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 115, Sec. 25. (AB 1817) Effective January 1, 2020.