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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.

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.

Parental Alienation is child abuse, unambiguous, abuse. Alienated children suffer the loss of a parent, a sense of security in the world and have low self-esteem and higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse problems.

My column this week in the Santa Monica Daily Press is about a protest by the National Coalition For Men against Verizon and a video they sponsored with the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Parents have two types of custody of their children, physical custody and legal custody. The question of physical custody versus legal custody is one that we are asked daily.

In the middle of some divorce and child custody battles, courts are now ordering the parties to exchange passwords to the sites like Faceboook, Match.com and eHarmony.com.

Tracey Richter was convicted in murder for hire case of trying to set up her ex-husband.

If you are having a sexual relationship with a woman, you may be find yourself on the hook for child support, if not child custody or child visitation.

If you feel crazy, unsure of yourself, are questioning your own abilities to know what’s true, you may be involved with a person who has a narcissistic personality disorder. In divorce cases with these types of people the process is very difficult as they change what they say and believe to fit their needs at every moment.

Here’s a case about a woman who was trying to keep child custody, and more importantly the $1,000 a month child support, by framing her ex in a ‘murder for hire’ scheme.