Texas Parental Alienation | Child Custody Lawyers

Unfortunately, it is very common in contentious family law matters for one parent to engage in Parental Alienation in an effort to diminish or destroy the other parent’s relationship with their child.  If you feel that your child is suffering from Parental Alienation tactics contact our Trusted Child Custody Attorneys In The Woodlands | Magnolia, TX to explore your remedies for Parental Alienation.  Texas Family Courts offer solutions to help address and stop parental alienation such as:

1) Ordering Counseling for the Parties involved and reunification counseling for the alienated parent and child;

2) Flipping or Restricting Custody against the Parent guilty of engaging in Alienation Tactics

3) Ordering remedial make-up possession and access time to the alienated parent for a period of time deemed sufficient by the court to purge the alienation from the child.

Of course, while our Child Custody | Parental Alienation Lawyers are fierce advocates for Parents victimized by Alienation tactics, our Family Lawyers are also relentless defenders of Parents accused of engaging in Parental Alienation.  The experienced Child Custody | Parental Alienation Lawyers at Nick Davis Law realize that there are always two sides to the Parental Alienation allegations.

For instance, a Father may say that the mother is turning their child against him and now his child no longer wants to visit him during his periods of possession.  But, the mother may allege that she is trying to staying out of the problem and that Father damage his own relationship by routinely failing to exercise visits or attend extracurricular school events, and he only wants to visit the child at his convenience and now his child no longer wants to follow the possession schedule.  

At Nick Davis Law, our Child Custody | Parental Alienation Lawyers in The Woodlands | Conroe, Texas and Bryan | College Station will analyze the circumstances of your case and advise you on the legal options you have in pursuing or defending against Parental Alienation claims. Whatever the circumstances are in your case, our Child Custody | Parental Alienation Lawyers can help pursue your goals and prepare your case to succeed.

Nick Davis Law offers all prospective Child Custody | Parental Alienation clients a Free Case Evaluation by phone or virtual conference as well as payment plans.  Contact our office at (936) 262-7474.

Typical Signs of Parental Alienation

• Persistent negative attitudes about a parent that was once viewed favorably in the past by the child;
• No Guilt or remorse expressed by the child for unreasonably treating the parent badly;
• trivial, irrational explanations and justifications expressed by the child to support the irrational hatred;
• Child minimizes positive experiences with the alienated parent and exaggerates the negative experiences;
• Child describes the favored parent as being nearly perfect;
• Child expresses desires to testify on behalf of favored parent in court;
• Child further denigrates and rejects relatives or anyone associated with the alienated parent.

If you believe your child exhibits any combination of these patterns above contact our experienced Child Custody | Parental Alienation Lawyers to explore your legal options to help punish the alienating parent and rebuild your relationship with your child in any custody case in Montgomery, Harris, Grimes, Waller, Walker, Brazos, Washington and surrounding Texas Counties.

The Four Typical Outcomes of a Parental Alienation Case?

1) Placing the child with the At Fault Parent with court orders to remedy the alienation;

2) Place the child with the Alienated Parent and suspend contact with the At Fault parent

3) Removing the child from both parents; and

4) Placing the child with the At Fault Parent with no scheduled contacts for the Alienated Parent.

Best Practices for Alienated Parents

• Don’t lose your temper or criticize your child;
• Don’t counter-reject your child in the manner of “if you don’t want to see me, I don’t want to see you”
• Don’t let your ex or the child control the terms of your possession and access time.  Stick to the Final Order.  The longer the child goes without seeing you, the more brainwashed they become and the worse your chances for repairing the relationship become; 
• Don’t try to talk your child out of the negative beliefs they have about you.  Just focus on the present and trying to engage in activities they used to enjoy;
• Don’t bad mouth your ex to the child;
• Don’t discuss adult situations with the child in an effort to rationalize or justify why the ex is lying to the child.