William Eddy, the author of: Splitting: Protecting Yourself When Divorcing a Borderline or Narcissist – has introduced an innovative new program in San Diego to help people with a high conflict partner better resolve issues involving child custody and other issues. The program, called New Ways for Families, is a structured program that helps reduce [...]

There is much debate as to whether or not “parental alienation“ rises to the level of a definable mental illness often referred to as “parental alienation syndrome.”  At Mr. Custody Coach, we don’t much care about that part of the argument.  Reasonably intelligent individuals are aware that people of all ages can be taught to [...]

Charles Ray Spencer, once a police officer in Vancouver, British Columbia, was incarcerated for 20-years after a conviction for molesting his two children.  Now, his son and daughter have announced that the molestation never happened and it was a product of police coercion and parental alienation on the part of their mother. On Friday, July [...]

This case has a number of hallmarks we see when mothers become gatekeepers and use the system to alienate and keep children away from their fathers. Unfortunately, in this instance, when the Mother lost custody temporarily, she decided to take the kids from their father permanently. According to the story, Amanda Jo Stott-Smith, first agreed [...]