(Contributing writer: Jaynee Beach and parental alienation teleconference guest speaker.) One of the issues many people are faced with during a high conflict divorce and child custody situation is obtaining important information. This information may include educational information, medical information, extracurricular information, and so very much more.  Many of the targets of the high-conflict ex [...]

An interesting discussion was had, via email, with one of our colleagues who happens to be fairly well-connected, through her work, to major players in one small corner of the family court world.  Below is an interesting, single insight into the thoughts of judges and lawyers who work within the system.  Very little, if any, [...]

In today’s edition of the joint Post Divorce Points of View column by Michael Ambrose and Lee Block, they discuss the state of marriage today and how the institution of marriage is adversely affected by a host of societal issues. Have laws, the problems with the family court and child custody issues, and the ease [...]

In Part 3 of our three-part discussion on Parental Alienation, Lee Block and Michael Ambrose discuss different approaches when in the midst of parental alienation and some expectations in the aftermath of dealing with parental alienation. Here is an excerpt: Don’t ignore it. You have to fight the parental alienation process with a process of [...]

In keeping with the recent spate of theft of child support related funds by those charged with overseeing the massive cash pile, comes a story out of South Carolina. Elizabeth Smith, now “former” Beaufort County Clerk of Courts, has agreed to plead guilty in Federal Court to “misusing” (see: STEALING) federal child support enforcement funds.  [...]

In our earlier post titled, Deployed Military Parents and Adverse Child Custody Impact, we detail several state legislatures introducing bills and passing laws to protect deployed military parents who are divorced from suffering unintended, but very real, child custody arrangement consequences. Deployed military parents were suffering loss of child custody upon return from battle.  Deployed [...]

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Each year, hundreds-of-thousands of children see their families altered by the pain of divorce.  Child custody matters are the most numerous in our family court systems today.  Every child custody case is unique and complex.  They are affected by parents’ post-divorce living arrangements, job situations, the level of conflict between the two parties, and so [...]

With the gargantuan size of the child support industry, it almost goes without saying that the system has plenty of people who would seek to take advantage of the flood of money that flows through child support collections offices. One of several recent reports includes the story out of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office.  [...]

Lee Block and I will continue our parental alienation discussion via our jointly authored Post Divorce Points of View Column at her website: The Post-Divorce Chronicles. An excerpt from our Part II installment on parental alienation: In additional to false accusations of abuse, parental alienation tactics are frequently evident in high conflict child custody matters. [...]