parental alienation

[andym299]

hi guys ...wat is your opinion of how the Coirts react to Parental Alienation......
i have been kept apart from my daughter for over a year now ...3rd hearing looming ....been granted supervised 2hr contact each fortnight but dince we parted she has dome everything to prevent contact even to the point of appealing the 2nd hearing decisipn....any thoghts please

Hi, it's difficult to know what to write without details (please don't feel that you need to share...) but here is some information. (Please note that I have not checked the links in the last few months and they are a starting point only.)

Alienating behaviours are usually assessed according to Cafcass guidance. You can read an introduction here: https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/parent-carer-or-family-member/applications-child-arrangements-order/how-your-family-court-adviser-makes-their-assessment-your-childs-welfare-and-best-interests/alienating-behaviours?origin=serp_auto

The sections 'Behaviours exhibited by a child where they have experienced alienation or implacable hostility' and 'Behaviours demonstrated by a parent who is intermittently or persistently alienating' within CAFCASS's document 'Alienating Behaviours Thinking Practice Aid' give you the framework - link here: www.cafcass.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023-09/Alienating-Behaviours-Thinking-Tool%20%281%29.docx

Alienating behaviours are usually considered 'in the round' i.e. seemingly innocuous incidents might not be so innocuous in the context of multiple other similar acts/omissions. They can be unconscious as well as conscious.

As ever, the burden of proof is on the one making the allegations.

I'm assuming that you have been accused of alienating behaviours.... if that assumption is correct and if it were me, I'd start by asking for a clear list of the specific allegations aligned to the CAFCASS list of behaviours.

And take legal advice if you have access / can afford that route or are entitled to legal aid.

Best wishes.