When a party in a legal proceeding believes that a report by a mental health professional is biased or incomplete or reflects incompetence in another regard on the part of the person who wrote it, he/she may seek to have that report reviewed. I have often been asked to critique a report prepared by someone else (and sometimes the underlying file) and offer my opinions about the process and conclusions drawn. I do so following the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts' position that when consulting in this way one not hear directly from the party seeking the review and that only information available at the time the report was prepared be considered. I am also mindful of the protocol for such reviews recommended by Gould et. al in an article that was published in the Journal of Child Custody, volume 1(3) in 2004.