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July 2, 2009

The American Board of Nonexistence

Filed under: Bad Custody Evaluators, California, Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Corrupt bastards, Domestic Violence, Dr. Richard Gardner, Fake Certification Boards, Family Courts, Getting Screwed by the Whores of the Court, Judicial Immunity, Legal abuse, Parental Alienation Syndrome, Pedophiles, Psychological testing, Psychologists, Raving lunatics, Speak Out, Stephen Doyne, Whores of the court — justice4mothers @ 5:55 pm

From the San Diego Weekly Reader (thanks mamaliberty):

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By Ernie Grimm | Published Wednesday, July 1, 2009

You know those framed certificates and diplomas that hang in your doctor’s office? It’s reassuring to see them, isn’t it? It’s nice to know that the pediatrician who treats your children has not only graduated from medical school and survived a hospital residency but is also certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Before having that $4000 dental implant done, it’s comforting to look up from your reclined chair and see a framed certificate from the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery hanging on the wall. The two boards just mentioned are legitimate and respected, so you’d be right to feel comforted. But what if the certificates on the wall could be had by anybody, even a cat? How would you feel then?

Dr. Emad Tadros felt reassured when, according to court papers, he “noticed many impressive and professional-looking frames” hanging in the office of Dr. Stephen Doyne, a psychologist and well-known “730 custody evaluator” who works on custody cases in San Diego Family Court. The divorce-help website divorcewizards.com says, “The 730 evaluation is a study of the family, its members and their relationship with the intent of restructuring parental rights and responsibilities concerning their children. It is requested by the parents or ordered by a judge when parties cannot decide on the best custody arrangements for their child. One cannot simply go to court and present an individual side of the argument in hopes of a ruling in one spouse’s favor. There must be evidence to support a position and a judge, not knowing the family, will depend on the opinion of a mental health professional to describe the parties involved and the nature of their interaction.”

But the mental health professionals are not hired by the court. They’re hired jointly by the parties in the custody proceedings. Tadros was in Doyne’s office to decide whether to hire him to perform a 730 evaluation in his 2005 custody case. “Doyne reassured me,” Tadros continues in his court declaration, “that he was Board Certified in his line of work of forensic psychology and that the evaluation would be confidential. I trusted and relied upon Doyne’s representations about his credentials and about confidentiality, and on that basis I entered into an agreement with Doyne for him to be the custody evaluator.”

Tadros, who is a psychiatrist and the vice chief of Scripps Behavioral Health Services, came to regret the decision to hire Doyne (for $8000) upon observing the latter’s methods. “Being a board certified psychiatrist,” Tadros states in a lawsuit he later filed against Doyne, “I noticed that Doyne’s performance was poor and substandard. I also noticed what appeared to be unethical practices, such as billing for things that never occurred, and incorrect billing records.”

Tadros adds that Doyne “never contacted my therapist even once as the court recommended. In addition, I was never able to confirm the validity or truthfulness of Doyne’s contact with the mother’s therapist.”

Doyne turned in his custody evaluation on September 30, 2005. He signed it as a “Diplomate of American College of Forensic Examiners.” Unhappy with the findings in Doyne’s custody evaluation and deeply suspicious of his professionalism, Tadros began investigating Doyne’s qualifications. He discovered, his court declaration says, that “The ‘American College of Forensic Examiners’ and the ‘American Board of Forensic Examiners’ are sham organizations known as ‘vanity boards’ or ‘certification mills’…run by the same con artist, Robert O’Block, who sells fake mail-order credentials and ‘diplomas.’ Both of these organizations have specifically been exposed as mail-order credentialing shams in various media and professional journal articles, including…a Wall Street Journal article that called the American College of Forensic Examiners a ‘mail-order credentialing organization for which the applicants need only pay $350.00 and pass an ethics exam.’ ”

A 2002 article in the online journal of the American Bar Association chronicles how a psychologist obtained from organizations, one of them affiliated with O’Block, several professional certifications for his cat under the name Zoe D. Katze.

In repeated correspondence beginning in summer 2006, Tadros says he “wrote to Doyne and requested some of the records in my custody case. Doyne responded by providing me some but not all of what I requested.”

The court files include a copy of Doyne’s response letter, which names him a diplomate of the American College of Forensic Psychologists, not Forensic Examiners as was on the custody evaluation. Subsequent correspondence from Doyne contained the same appellation. But no American College of Forensic Psychologists exists. There is an American College of Forensic Psychology. Tadros contacted this organization. The college, Tadros says, “told me in writing they [never] heard of Doyne and they do not have Diplomates.”

Tadros also called the American Board of Professional Psychology, which he describes in court papers as “the only legitimate certifying body recognized by all state licensing boards and the American Psychological Association.… They checked their records and told me they have no record and have never had a record of Dr. Stephen Doyne as one of their Diplomates.”

Tadros filed a motion in family court to obtain Doyne’s curriculum vitae and records. In June 2007, Judge Jeffrey Bostwick ordered Doyne to release them. Doyne produced the curriculum vitae, Tadros says, but not the records. Instead, he “appealed the family court’s order. While the appeal was still pending, Doyne gave private case information to the California Association of Psychology Providers (CAPP) so CAPP would file an Amicus Brief in his favor.” The association did file a brief on behalf of Doyne.

“Many of the credentials that Doyne claimed in his CV, letterhead, and to [me],” Tadros says in his lawsuit, “were false, fraudulent and misleading.” The curriculum lists Doyne as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and an instructor at the University of California, San Diego. “However,” Tadros states, “both of those Universities have denied in writing that they have any record of Doyne.” Copies of those letters are lodged as exhibits in the court file.

“Doyne’s CV,” Tadros continues, “states he was an Instructor at California School of Professional Psychology/CSPP (now Alliant University). However, said University, too, has denied, in writing, having any record of Doyne.… Despite numerous formal requests by me asking Doyne to substantiate the credentials listed in his CV, at no time has Doyne done so. Doyne limited his reply to a letter from his attorney…stating the law does not require him to substantiate anything in his CV.”

Tadros’s lawsuit against Doyne alleges fraud, negligence, breach of contract, and violation of the California Business and Professions Code. The allegations are based on Doyne’s misrepresentation of his credentials and on Doyne’s divulging private information from Tadros’s custody case during an October 20, 2007 presentation to a conference of custody evaluators. Tadros seeks “damages against [Doyne] in an amount to be proven at trial” plus “court costs and attorneys’ fees.”

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