Re: Can a Teenager Get Emancipated Due to a High Conflict Divorce
I kind of thought the same thing about it sounding like parental alienation. That could explain why custody went to Dad.
Re: Can a Teenager Get Emancipated Due to a High Conflict Divorce
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I kind of thought the same thing about it sounding like parental alienation. That could explain why custody went to Dad.
Yeah, but we are talking about a 17 year old. Judges rarely do something that is totally against the wishes of a 17 year old...because it usually does more harm than good. Her younger sister has a 50/50 schedule so obviously the courts do not think that mom is unfit.
This child is going to see age 18 as freedom from dad day and is going to leave and is never going to look back. If dad is not the abuser he is made out to be, how is the judge's decision going to help anything?
Re: Can a Teenager Get Emancipated Due to a High Conflict Divorce
But the judge did completely disregard the 17 year olds wishes. So there must be a reason. Even if parental alienation wasn't the main reason for the change in custody, I get the feeling it is still there. Especially since they were originally going for modification based on the truancy, but that had already been corrected.
I got the feeling about alienation based on the original post which stated that the 17 year old was living with Mom "full time (by choice)," (not by Court order) indicating Mom was allowing the child to refuse visitation, and the police needing to be involved in order to force her to comply with the court order after custody was granted to Dad. I could be completely wrong, but it was a feeling I got when reading the original post.