Time and time again, rejected/alienated parents come to see me after an adverse or at best an ambivalent family assessment conducted by family consultants (custody evaluators). These parents are frustrated hurt and angry and indeed frightened for their children because it seems to them that family consultants make inadequate (or no) recommendations … [Read more...]
Family Law
Below is a list of blog posts on the topic of 'Family Law'.
Does Mediation Encourage and Collude with Parental Alienation and Child Abuse?
Is it possible that the Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) process mandated by the Australian Family Law Act 1975 may inadvertently sanction parental alienation? Are parents at risk of undertaking mediation in a child abusive situation? Sometimes alienated and rejected parents tell me that they caught up in one or more rounds of Family Dispute … [Read more...]
Are Mothers and Children being Silenced in the Family Court?
I respond to this article on www. singlemum.com.au and on Linkedin in the context of parental alienation as a form of emotional and psychological child abuse and family violence. False allegations of abuse and parental alienation leave our children at risk and degrade the integrity of people and children who make appropriate claims. I regret … [Read more...]
“Parental Alienation Becomes a Successful Tactic”, Parental Alienation and False Allegations Discussed in The Australian Senate
In March 2014, former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Senator John Madigan addressed the Senate on the use of intervention and family violence orders based upon false allegations to deny a parent contact with a child, and the 2012 changes to the Family Law Act (FLA) that facilitate this. He contends that the 2012 changes to the Family Law Act … [Read more...]
Is there an Epidemic of False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse and Family Violence?
It seems to have become almost de rigueur for many of my clients both men and women who claim to be victims of parental alienation to have had some allegation made against them of a sexual or violent nature. A common experience reported by victims of parental alienation (Alienated Parents) is that they are often barred from the former family … [Read more...]
Slaughtering Sacred Family Law Cows: Splitting Alienating Siblings
How are parents put into a terrible position of saving one child over another? That is Parental Alienation at work when one sibling alienates another. An alienated or excluded parent then has to choose whom to save. Several times now clients have presented me with extreme situations where they are tenuously holding onto a relationship with their … [Read more...]
Should Alienating Parents Be Punished?
Should the Australian Family Court consider sanctions against parents who continually flout court orders and compromise their children’s relationship with one of their parents? A Family Court judge in Canada threatens sanctions against an alienating parent, stating that this parent's continued alienation may cause the court to reconsider whether … [Read more...]
Have You Been Accused of being an Alienating Parent?
Are You an Alienating Parent? Have you Been Accused of Being an Alienating Parent? Are you wondering why your children are acting the way they do, particularly against the other parent? Are you worried about what might be happening to your children caught up in the conflict between you and your ex-partner? Are you wondering why … [Read more...]
