It’s no secret that people often use their children to achieve their goals in family court. Despicable, but all too common. Probably the most disturbing dynamic is the parent that tries to gain custody by being a child’s friend or buying the child’s affection through permissiveness or other bribery. While the other parent wants to impose structure, [...]
Consider this hypothetical family. A mother is an exclusive caretaker for the children. The father exhibits little interest in them. He is a domestic tyrant mistreating both the children and their mother on nearly a daily basis. He invests nothing in the relationship with the children and all interaction is negative. Finally mom has enough and files a [...]
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