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  • 07-29-2012, 04:21 PM
    Kelly7
    Parental Alienation Syndrome
    My question involves a child custody case from the State of: FL and IN

    Is this established in court as a genuine legal issue? My estranged husband has been giving my only child money to not talk with me on the phone, not email me, to have no contact at all.

    We don't have a custody agreement. My son is 17 and goes to school in the state where his father lives. His father makes a lot more money than I do. I honestly believe my husband is trying to erase me from my son's life.
  • 07-29-2012, 04:25 PM
    Dogmatique
    Re: Parental Alienation Syndrome
    PAS has been discredited by every reputable agency in the country.

    Parental Alienation however is real. The problem I'm seeing though is that you have no custody order. Your son will be 18 soon enough and at that point he can choose to visit, speak to and live with whomever he pleases.
  • 07-29-2012, 06:55 PM
    Kelly7
    Re: Parental Alienation Syndrome
    Quote:

    Quoting Dogmatique
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    PAS has been discredited by every reputable agency in the country.

    Parental Alienation however is real. The problem I'm seeing though is that you have no custody order. Your son will be 18 soon enough and at that point he can choose to visit, speak to and live with whomever he pleases.

    I'm uncertain about terms here. When you say "agency," does that mean [every reputable] court?

    Regarding parental alienation, I believe it's real, too. Even though he will be 18 soon, I can't even imagine the cumulative effect and long-term issues he may have with this. He is very immature for his age, and I know he has a lot of difficulty disagreeing with his dad, even on little issues (expects his i-Phone to be taken away, or loss of privileges, as one might expect from a much younger child). I am considering a guardian ad litem as he cannot remain a child forever, even though it is exactly what his dad wants.

    Thank you so much for your help.
  • 07-29-2012, 07:57 PM
    Dogmatique
    Re: Parental Alienation Syndrome
    PAS was "invented" by a man who basically promoted pedophilia and later committed suicide.

    PA is quite different, and very real.
  • 07-29-2012, 08:17 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Re: Parental Alienation Syndrome
    The concept of "Parental Alienation Syndrome" was promoted as a pseudo-diagnosis - a suggestion that if you could demonstrate a certain number of enumerated acts of alienation, a court could find a "syndrome" that would support modification of custody. The "syndrome" was never accepted by the psychological community, is not an official diagnosis, and is thus not helpful in court (even before getting to the baggage associated with its promoter). Alienating behaviors, however, will tie into a best interest analysis and, at times or at certain extremes, may help support actual psychological diagnoses.
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