Forensic Assessment in Civil Cases

legal documents in which patients indicate what kinds of future medical treatments they will agree to should they later become incompacitated and therefore be incompetent to make treatment decisions for themselves.

the violation of a duty that one party legally owes to another party

the legal proceeding by which a person who is mentally ill and imminently dangerous is involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital

the ability of an individual to act appropriately in such non criminal decisions as executing a will or determing medical treatment

the payment or restitution owed to a plaintiff for the damages and harm that have been determined to have been caused by a civil defendent

behavior that involves acts of physical violence or aggression by one person against another

the obligation that one party legally owes to another party

the application of psychological procedures to determine whether the mode of death was accident, suicide, homocide, or due to natural causes

the legal standard by which most child custody decisions are made in the US

the losses or adversities suffered by a person who is the victim of the wrongdoing

conduct in which an actor means for the outcomes of his or her behaviors to occur

a legal outcome in which divorcing parents share or divide various decision-making and control responsibilities for their children

the intentional fabrication or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms in order to gain an incentive or advantage

a form of alternative dispute resolution in which a neutral third party helps the disputing parties agree on a resolution to their conflict

behavior that fails to meet the legal standard for acting in a way that would protect others from unreasonable risks

an alternative to the best-interest-of-the-child standard, in which the child goes with the parent who has been the primary care giver of the child

a cause that constitues an obvious or substantial reason why a given harm occured

an attempt to determine the mode of death via an examination of what was known about the deceased

financial compensation provided to a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit and assessed against a defendant to punish that defendant and to deter future misconduct by the defendant and others

the assessment of the probability that a person will behave violently in certain circumstances

the awarding of custody to a child to one of the parents

having the mental capacity to execute a will when the will is signed and witnessed, including the capacity to resist the pressures or domination of any person who might try to exert undue influence on the distribution of the estate of the person writing the will

a civil suit that does not involve a contract

those measures whose goal is to access whether the test taker is telling the truth