Parental Alienation

Parental alienation can ruin your relationship with your child through no fault of your own. Although you can bring this egregious behavior to stop, you have to know how to be able to do that if you want to protect your relationship with your child. You also have to...

When parents divorce, the hope is that they can work together as co-parents as they raise their kids as a team. Sadly, if parents have a lot of animosity towards one another post-divorce, this type of cooperation is not always possible. Some parents even go as far as...

A lot of parental alienation cases are reduced to he-said, she-said situations, with each parent making allegations against the other. Although you may be able to support your position with extrinsic evidence and the testimony of mental health professionals, your...

If you and your child are being subjected to parental alienation, then you need to figure out what you can do to bring it to a stop and how to do so as quickly as possible. While achieving that ultimate outcome may require successful legal action in the form of a...

Parental alienation can take many forms. Sometimes a manipulating parent simply lies to a child about the other parent. While this may sound relatively minor at first, if you’re reading this post then you know that it can be an extremely powerful parental alienation...

When a couple with a child breaks up, it is very possible that the child will bond with one parent (the alienating parent) while completely rejecting the other (the target parent) for no legitimate reason. This is referred to as parental alienation and can be...

Child custody situations are complicated, and even parents who generally have an amicable relationship may with each other may struggle with child custody sometimes. Additionally, children with separated or divorced parents face a unique set of challenges, which may...

This blog has posted on the concept of maternal gatekeeping before. Essentially, it is where a mother controls the father’s household responsibilities and interactions with their children. It is a common phenomenon that has been noted by industry experts and...

In Michigan and across the United States, divorce is troublingly common. Recent events have increased the number of people who are considering it or moving forward with a divorce. In some cases, the parties can come to an amicable agreement and part ways. In others,...

Increasingly, divorcing and divorced parents hear that they should seek to mediate their disagreements. Others tell them that litigation breeds conflict, and conflict is bad for the children. However, these statements don’t always hold up to scrutiny, and this is...