Parental alienation occurs when a child refuses to have a relationship with a parent due to manipulation, such as the conveying of exaggerated or false information, by the other parent. The situation ...

Combating parental alienation can seem nearly impossible unless you know how it works and what to do. A fictional scenario helps explain.

A child’s reluctance or refusal to have a relationship with a parent for illogical, untrue or exaggerated reasons. There is a spectrum of parental alienation, from mild to severe. In mild cases, the ...

Depending upon the identity of the person being quoted, “parental alienation” is either a myth, a scourge, a court-calendar-clogging phenomenon, a moneymaking opportunity for “deprogrammers,” a ...

Have your children turned against you? Do they resist spending time with you? Have they joined with your ex in treating you with contempt? If so, they may be suffering from parental alienation. In ...

Parental alienation – defined as when one parent’s relationship with his or her child is harmed by the other parent – can have devastating consequences. Many legal professionals and psychologists have ...

While adapting to all of the changes that come when parents split, the last thing a child needs is to be put in the middle of the dispute. Parents should always strive to insulate their children from ...

According to a new study, parental alienating behaviors and coercively controlling abuse are similar, and should be treated similarly in family court proceedings. Abusive intimate relationships are ...

Judicial opinions abundant in facts and rich in thoughtful analysis are as rare as a white peacock. Hon. Richard A. Dollinger, J.S.C. has delivered such a rarity in J.F. v. D.F., 61 Misc.3d 1226(A), ...

A common issue during divorce – and after divorce – involves one parent speaking poorly of the other. Many times the parent who is engaged in this unfortunate behavior does not even realize what he or ...

In his Matrimonial Practice column, Timothy M. Tippins writes: Judicial opinions abundant in facts and rich in thoughtful analysis are as rare as a white peacock. Hon. Richard A. Dollinger has ...