A friend of mine is going through a nasty divorce in Utah County. She's a fairly recent exmo, and her tbm husband, along with his Mormon lawyer and a Mormon commissioner are putting her through the ringer. At this point she's planning to get a custody evaluation, but we're concerned about finding someone who won't view the case through the prism of Mormonism. Her attorney has recommended someone named Jay P. Jensen. Anyone have any info on whether he's likely to be exmo friendly? Any other rcommendations?

Not good reviews from here:

https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/2979691/Dr-JAY%2BP.-JENSEN-Provo-UT.html

"He is the most inconsiderate evaluator I know. Has no consideration of time and the affect the evaluations have on the family's. What was supposed to take him 6 to 8 weeks took him a year and a half. My life was on hold till it was done. He does not return phone calls or emails either. I would not recommend him to my worst enemy."

"Dr Jensen was fine, but the professionalism of his staff has much to be desired. When you call his office, you can barely understand his voicemail message, and the majority of messages I left were unreturned. I tried setting up appointments via email, but emails were also unreturned. When I finally followed up via email, the response from their office was very snippy. I would not recommend going to Dr Jensen because you won't be able to ever set up an appointment."

I would have to wonder about the skills and/or ethics of the attorney who made the recommendation.

Some time ago, a poster brought up the very good point that attorneys only get paid as long as you need them. To clear you case quickly puts a stop to your payments to them.

Thank you for your recommendations of Dr. Davies.

Would you please expound more as to why you recommend him?

What was the result?

Why is he better than another evaluator?

Is he biased towards mormons, or non-mormons?

What was the logic that he used to obtain the results that you were happy with?

Thanks so much for your very kind help.

Try this guy: Matthew Davies. He's very good and very highly regarded. He was the evaluator on a case I dealt with, and was very professional. I've also heard him lecture and I've been impressed with his skills.

http://drmattdavies.com/custody_evaluation.html

Thank you for your recommendations of Dr. Davies.

Would you please expound more as to why you recommend him?

What was the result?

Why is he better than another evaluator?

Is he biased towards mormons, or non-mormons?

What was the logic that he used to obtain the results that you were happy with?

Thanks so much for your very kind help.

rpraleigh Wrote:
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> A friend of mine is going through a nasty divorce
> in Utah County. She's a fairly recent exmo, and
> her tbm husband, along with his Mormon lawyer and
> a Mormon commissioner are putting her through the
> ringer. At this point she's planning to get a
> custody evaluation, but we're concerned about
> finding someone who won't view the case through
> the prism of Mormonism. Her attorney has
> recommended someone named Jay P. Jensen. Anyone
> have any info on whether he's likely to be exmo
> friendly? Any other recommendations?

FYI-check the amount of any custody evaluators cases per year and how long they have done them. Davies does around 40" cases per year and the loser side tends to review way more often as they are angry they lost. 5-10 bad reviews for an evaluator who does 400 cases is actually considered very low. It's a very tough field to be in and evaluators are at risk for death threats and violence from a losing party.

An attorney may recommend someone with bad reviews but they may be the best evaluator for the case. That doesn't mean re attorney or the evaluator is bad. Some evaluators are known for being more tuned in to fathers rights than others or may. E more tuned into alienation issues than others. The attorney likely knows this if they practice family law frequently. Trust your attorney in this area if you feel they are trustworthy in other areas.

Correction to above..

Davies does around 400 cases per year (not 40) but upon review it it is more around a couple hundred which is considered high volume. He's been doing his around 20 years which speaks a lot as bad custody evaluators never last long as business is based on referrals and custody evaluators are subject to more complaints to licensing boards than almost other professions. It's a high conflict field to practice in and not easy at all.

Have a case that will be done by him and hoping it works out well.

I realize this post is old but wanted to add the info in case anyone else came across it like I did via a google search.

I read your post that you posted in Nov 3rd.

I have asked these questions above, and would appreciate hearing your experience with Dr. Davies to the same questions.

Thank you!!


Thank you for your recommendations of Dr. Davies.

Would you please expound more as to why you recommend him?

What was the result?

Why is he better than another evaluator?

Is he biased towards mormons, or non-mormons?

What was the logic that he used to obtain the results that you were happy with?

Thanks so much for your very kind help.

Divorce is the scourge of Kindness & Honesty...

Hey! Aren'those what MoMism is supposed to be about?

my bad.

"Divorce is a Mitzvah." ~ Rabbi Perry Netter

He wrote a book with that as the title. It basically means that sometimes divorce is the kindest thing a couple can do (not scourge!)



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