가사조사관의 인력과 직무에 관한 연구

The human resources and duties of the family court probation officer in domestic relations cases

This study reviewed the current state and the problems of the family court probation officer system with focused on the human resources and duties in domestic relation cases. The family court probation officer system had come to a important turning point in 2001 when the experts in the field of social behavioral science was recruited as professional family court probation officer. They obtain the results that is diversified fact-finding order cases, introduce the scientific investigation methods and activity the family court social service. Thus the current state of performance of duties has developed than the past state. But the problems remains such as the absent of programs for high conflict family cases and intervention at an early stage. The current human resources system of family court probation officer is an obstacle to progress of family court. The number of professional officer isn't enough for performance their duties and the structure of human resource is divided two type that is profession officer and general officer belonging to court clerks. To solve these kind of problems I suggest these solutions. (1) increase the number of professional officers, (2) unify the system to just professional officers, (3) development the program for high conflict cases, (4) introduce the differentiated case management system.