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2:00 pm -3:00 pm, Saturday, August 2, 2008. (note: there will be no July meeting) Location: Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the corner of Academy and Moon. Park in the back (south side), we are in the Adult Education wing, just inside the door (Rm 403).
Topic: TBD
Dr. Gayle Zieman, New Mexico Psychologist and Prominent Family Court Custody Evaluator
CFJ has received many complaints about Dr. Zieman as a custody evaluator. Many of them follow the same pattern: false accusations and diagnoses in his reports to the Court that have no basis in psychological test scores or evidence. In addition, he has withheld important material evidence regarding input from psychologists and psychological test scores from the Court showing severe psychological problems on the part of litigants in some cases. Below we will begin posting specific instances of this problem.
Recent discovery of Dr. Gayle Zieman's addictive drug use and other misconduct. On August 10, 2004 in a hearing in case DR 95-2675 Judge Ernesto Romero was provided with evidence of the following misconduct of Dr. Zieman. [Download as pdf Warning - file is over 50 pages (319 KB), but very interesting reading!] The evidence was revealed by expert testimony, Dr. Zieman's own testimony from a prior hearing, and other means. A professional that has exhibited so much misconduct should not be allowed to continue to hold his license as a New Mexico psychologist, much less be trusted with decisions regarding children and families.
Dr. Zieman
  1. was taking a very large dosage of a highly addictive Valium-type drug called Temazepam during the entire time he was an evaluator on this case (and many others);
  2. had performed work that was not ordered by the Court and then demanded payment for it;
  3. had lied under oath about Respondent's psychological test score, grossly exaggerating the score to a level needing institutionalization when in fact it was perfectly normal;
  4. had made claims that Respondent was "narcissistic" and "pathological" in written reports when his own test scores showed no evidence of such serious claims;
  5. had failed to properly handle evidence that Petitioner had sexually abused Respondent and failed to make note of it in his three reports to the Court;
  6. had stated to Respondent during a meeting that he was angry with her and that his anger could impact his resulting report regarding the parties' son (an official transcript of a tape of this meeting was submitted to the Court as evidence);
  7. had withheld material evidence throughout the case that Petitioner had an extremely high psychological test score (in a range considered in need of institutionalization).

Do you have information of concern or have you filed a complaint to an official regarding this Psychologist? CFJ would like to know! Please contact us via email info@family-justice.org class telephone (505) 319-3486, or postal mail at P.O. Box 21996, Albuquerque, NM 87154. Help us root out problem persons in the court system!
last updated on October 7, 2007
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