What was your experience with a Psych evaluation?

Often times survivors can see the toxic traits in their STBX better than anyone and they hope that psych evaluation would bring to the abusive traits so that the judge could make better informed decisions about custody. The book "Splitting" by Billy Eddie is a fantastic resource prior to requesting and divorcing a person with Narcissistic, abusive or other troubling traits.  

• "I got a forensic psych eval that cost me $30k. All it said was he is “capable of making decisions in the best interest” of our son but “only time will tell”.
• "Yes. It was recommended by a Court Appointed Advisor. He was required to pay for it."
• "I intentionally scheduled my evaluation first so she heard my version of events first. I also provided additional documentation such as a copy of a police report and a few email exchanges. For each email exchange I included a short paragraph explaining why I thought the exchange was relevant to the pattern of concerning behavior I was attempting to establish. Ultimately, he was found to have unspecified personality disorder with histrionic and narcissistic traits - I was not assessed with any mental health issues. The evaluator testified at trial, but I also hired an expert witness to review the psych evals and testify as to how my nex's diagnosis would impact his parenting. This really helped the court to understand that his condition isn't really treatable. I was awarded full physical and legal custody and my nex has had no contact with our child for over 6 years because he didn't want to follow the custody order."
• "Yes, but it didn’t really matter at the end of the day. He found a “psychiatrist” who wrote a one page letter stating that he was cured from his PTSD from the war and was otherwise a very sane and rational man. Highly recommended him as a father. That one bogus piece of paper was accepted by the courts and considered sufficient enough to give him 50/50 custody."
• "Waste of $$$ they can and do “pass” these even though they are supposedly designed not to be. Spent $6k on one (me and ex) didn’t show a thing except “anger issues” in his part"
• "Most evaluators have little to no experience with NPD or personality disorders."
• "I didn’t know such thing was possible, but the judge ordered it after reading some texts in a OP case. He also required him to have six therapy sessions (the max he was allowed to order) per evaluation recommendation."
• "The judge ordered my nex to take a psychosexual evaluation, but I had to cover all expenses. The Dr. that evaluated him found enough red flags that she called CPS, recommended a treatment system, diagnosed him with a sexual deviancy problem, & noted narcissistic traits, but that more testing was needed before making that a diagnosis. Unfortunately the narc convinced the judge to not take the report seriously & it had no bearing on our final judgment. Neither did the polygraph or a ton of other evidence. Narcs are master manipulators. I was told the evidence was so much & so damning it wasn’t really necessary for me to share my story. So I simply pointed back to the evidence. I regret that now. I’m not sure it would have made a difference, but now I’ll never know. Literally all the evidence was against him & in my favor, but he still got everything he wanted"
• Waste of time and money.
• "Keep in mind if the judge doesn’t give weight to forensic reports, (as well as the attorney for the child) it sadly will not matter what the report finds or recommends."