Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D.

Dr. Philip Stahl is a Board-certified forensic psychologist in private practice, who provides consultation and expert witness testimony in child custody litigation throughout the United States and North America. His primary area of specialty is relocation, including complex international relocations. Dr. Stahl is licensed in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Michigan, and has held temporary licensure in several other jurisdictions. Since 1999, Dr. Stahl has been providing training in California to meet the requirements of CA ROC 5.220, 5.225, and 5.230, and he conducts workshops and training throughout the United States and internationally for lawyers, child custody evaluators and others working with high-conflict families of divorce. Dr. Stahl has been on the faculty of the National Judicial College teaching domestic violence to judges since 2000, regularly speaks at state judicial colleges and has been teaching with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology since 2013. Along with his teaching, Dr. Stahl has written extensively on high-conflict divorce and custody evaluations. He is the author of CONDUCTING CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATIONS: FROM BASIC TO ADVANCED ISSUES (Sage Publications, 2010), PARENTING AFTER DIVORCE, 2ND EDITION (Impact Publishers, 2008) and Emerging Issues in Relocation in the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers(2013), and is co-author, with Dr. Robert Simon, of FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY CONSULTATION IN CHILD CUSTODY LITIGATION: A HANDBOOK FOR WORK PRODUCT REVIEW, CASE PREPARATION, AND EXPERT TESTIMONY (American Bar Association Section of Family Law,2d ed.2020).Dr. Stahl’s most exciting project has been his newest book, written with his daughter Rebecca Stahl, JD, LLM, REPRESENTING CHILDREN INDEPENDENCY AND FAMILY COURT: BEYOND THE LAW (American Bar Association Section of Family Law2018).Dr. Stahl can be reached for questions, consultation, expert witness work or speaking at conferences via: philipstahlphd@gmail.com

Chapter 19 - Child Custody Evaluations

Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D.