000118155 001__ 118155 000118155 005__ 20230519145543.0 000118155 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1371/journal.pone.0258993 000118155 0248_ $$2sideral$$a126930 000118155 037__ $$aART-2021-126930 000118155 041__ $$aeng 000118155 100__ $$aMuñoz Soro J.F. 000118155 245__ $$aA model for predicting court decisions on child custody 000118155 260__ $$c2021 000118155 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000118155 5203_ $$aAwarding joint or sole custody is of crucial importance for the lives of both the child and the parents. This paper first models the factors explaining a court''s decision to grant child custody and later tests the predictive capacity of the proposed model. We conducted an empirical study using data from 1, 884 court rulings, identifying and labeling factual elements, legal principles, and other relevant information. We developed a neural network model that includes eight factual findings, such as the relationship between the parents and their economic resources, the child''s opinion, and the psychological report on the type of custody. We performed a temporal validation using cases later in time than those in the training sample for prediction. Our system predicted the court''s decisions with an accuracy exceeding 85%. We obtained easy-to-apply decision rules with the decision tree technique. The paper contributes by identifying the factors that best predict joint custody, which is useful for parents, lawyers, and prosecutors. Parents would do well to know these findings before venturing into a courtroom. 000118155 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000118155 592__ $$a0.852$$b2021 000118155 590__ $$a3.752$$b2021 000118155 593__ $$aMultidisciplinary$$c2021$$dQ1 000118155 591__ $$aMULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES$$b29 / 74 = 0.392$$c2021$$dQ2$$eT2 000118155 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000118155 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-2596-9638$$aSerrano Cinca C.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000118155 7102_ $$14002$$2230$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Contabilidad y Finanzas$$cÁrea Economía Finan. y Contab. 000118155 773__ $$g16, 10 (2021), e0258993[21 pp]$$pPLoS One$$tPLoS ONE$$x1932-6203 000118155 8564_ $$s1242732$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/118155/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000118155 8564_ $$s2359752$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/118155/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000118155 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:118155$$particulos$$pdriver 000118155 951__ $$a2023-05-18-15:41:44 000118155 980__ $$aARTICLE