How can I recognize if my co-parent will engage in Parental Alienation? A parent who exhibits signs of a personality disorder such as extreme narcissism, borderline personality disorder, and ...

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 ...

Scapegoating, triangulation, and parental alienation work together to isolate family members and keep one person in control.

What children of divorce want most and need most is to maintain strong and healthy relationships with both of their parents. Children have an innate desire to love, and be loved, by their mother and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...