ABSTRACT
SUMMARY. State judges in Louisiana were surveyed with regard to their beliefs dealing with custody issues. These issues dealt with the rela tionships between custody decisions and maternal preference, maternal employment, remarriage, joint custody, sexual misconduct, and payment of child support. There was significant disagreement among judges re garding the impact of maternal employment and prior sexual misconduct on custody decisions. There was substantial agreement on the remainder of the issues. The judges exhibited a strong maternal preference. The ma jority chose neutral responses with regard to die impact of remarriage. There was opposition to joint physical custody. The majority of the judges were opposed to tying visitation to the payment of child support. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Ser vice: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address: getinfo@haworth.com]
Leighton E. Stamps, PhD, and Seth Kunen, PhD, are Professors, and Anita Rock-Faucheux, MS, is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148.
