Family Law & Parental Alienation

The Family Court is unlikely to be sympathetic to a privileged view a child has about their relationship with a particular parent.

That is that the Court will most likely expect the other parent to ensure that a child/children have a substantial relationship with each parent, notwithstanding any reservations one parent may have about the other.

Each parent should also be made aware that their authority to influence the course of events in family law matters is greater in the mediation process than it is in the formal Court process in which a parents authority is to some significant degree taken over by the Court.

Many parents induct their child/children into a particular perspective about their ex-spouse/partner.

A child/children often clearly know more than is ordinarily appropriate for a child/children. They then often believe they have a right to determine what relationship a parent has with them, when where and how.

This is often in the direct influence of one parent and in the relationship their child/children have with the other. There is little doubt that in many informed quarters this would be seen as parental alienation.