Fourth Amendment Privacy & Refusing Unwarranted Custody Interrogations: Under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, fit parents maintain fundamental constitutional liberty and bodily privacy against unwarranted psychiatric examinations (Whalen v. Roe). Family courts lack jurisdiction to compel invasive psychological evaluations, parenting assessments, or waivers of medical privilege without an independent evidentiary finding of severe parental unfitness established by clear and convincing evidence under strict scrutiny (Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745).
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Fix Family Courts provides parents, attorneys, and family advocates with rigorous constitutional frameworks to safeguard fundamental parental rights. Under binding Supreme Court precedents including Troxel v. Granville, Santosky v. Kramer, and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, fit parents are constitutionally presumed to act in their children's best interests. State courts lack constitutional authority to abridge custody, parenting time, or parental decision-making without strict scrutiny and clear and convincing evidence.
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