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Parental Alienation cases require a complete analysis of the family dynamics to determine what is really going on with the child custody, but one of the easiest dynamics to determine is Parentification of the child.

When alienated parents and children are trying to re-establish their relationship it can be a rocky period and the parent may want to explain, persuade or become defensive about the events that lead up to the separation.

Children do not normally reject their parents absent a cause. Even children who have been sexually molested by a parent will still want to have some relationship with that parent.

When I first start working a child custody case with an alienated parent, someone who has become an estranged parent from their child by the malicious actions of their former spouse or partner, I start by assessing the situation to determine how much work must be done to reunite parent and child.

You can’t play football by the rules of baseball, and the top mistake that alienated parents and estranged parents make in these child custody and divorce cases is to think that a reconciliation should based on what’s fair.

Child Custody cases are painful for the parents and for the children, and in those cases where one parent is trying to cut out the other parent from the child’s life, it is even more painful.

When parents split up, or if they were never together, the question always arises over how to share legal and physical custody of the child or children.

For Non-Custodial parents, whether they are the father or the mother, when the other parent, who has primary physical custody of the child decides to move away, whether it is 20 miles or 2 continents, the nightmare begins.

Like most things in life, there is a spectrum of Parental Alienation, there is the mild parental alienation that occurs when a couple divorces and each parent is overly critical in front of the children of the other parent. This is usually a short lived practice.

Parents who share custody of their children can have Joint Legal Custody, Joint Physical Custody, Sole Legal Custody and Sole Physical Custody.