What is the name of your state? Texas
What is the best way to defend against a parental alienation accusation?
I’ve been divorced a little over 4 years. We did not have a trial, rather my ex agreed to all terms on the day of our trial. In our custody agreement, I got sole physical and legal custody and he had supervised visitation. In order to be able to modify the agreement, he was to attend an anger management class, have a psychiatric evaluation, have a clean drug test, and attend therapy with our kid for a year. He was to visit our kid at a facility.
He originally refused to utilize a facility, so I included him in birthdays, holidays, and special fun things. It always ended up with us fighting, so in july of 2016, I said I couldn’t do that anymore and he’d need to visit kiddo at a facility. He then disappeared for 8 months.
When he re-entered our kid’s life, he asked about the supervised visits, and I said we’d need to start therapy first after such a long absence and would defer to the counselor on when visiting would be appropriate. After multiple visits, the counselor still said more therapy was needed before a visit would be a good idea; it felt like he was just taking out money without any progress forward, so I told my ex that I’d like to find another counselor and he said ok. While I was looking for another one, he asked again about supervised visits, so I sent all the necessary info to the facility. And then my ex didn’t contact us for about 4 months. At that point I was served with papers to modify the custody agreement.
He completed the anger management, but was asking to be released from the need for a psych evaluation. He was sent for a drug test, which was positive. The judge ordered he complete the psych evaluation, attend therapy with our kid, and set up supervised visits at a much more accessible facility.
When we reported back, his repeat drug test was still positive, but he got 4 unsupervised hours a week and was told to continue therapy.
Our kid has had a hard time with this, which is what I told the judge. He doesn’t really know his father and doesn’t trust him due to an act of neglect (which is what lead to his dad having supervised visits). I asked for things to go slowly and allow the therapist to help, and it’s going well. Our kiddo is doing better after seeing the therapist with his father regularly, and isn’t so freaked out by his father.
But now I’ve been served with a new motion. His father is claiming I have abused our kid by alienating him from his father. My ex is asking for sole custody and that I only be allowed supervised visitation at his discretion.
How do I defend myself? I don’t know how to prove I didn’t do something, and I’m very scared.
I’m sorry this is so merciless in length. Thank you.
What is the best way to defend against a parental alienation accusation?
I’ve been divorced a little over 4 years. We did not have a trial, rather my ex agreed to all terms on the day of our trial. In our custody agreement, I got sole physical and legal custody and he had supervised visitation. In order to be able to modify the agreement, he was to attend an anger management class, have a psychiatric evaluation, have a clean drug test, and attend therapy with our kid for a year. He was to visit our kid at a facility.
He originally refused to utilize a facility, so I included him in birthdays, holidays, and special fun things. It always ended up with us fighting, so in july of 2016, I said I couldn’t do that anymore and he’d need to visit kiddo at a facility. He then disappeared for 8 months.
When he re-entered our kid’s life, he asked about the supervised visits, and I said we’d need to start therapy first after such a long absence and would defer to the counselor on when visiting would be appropriate. After multiple visits, the counselor still said more therapy was needed before a visit would be a good idea; it felt like he was just taking out money without any progress forward, so I told my ex that I’d like to find another counselor and he said ok. While I was looking for another one, he asked again about supervised visits, so I sent all the necessary info to the facility. And then my ex didn’t contact us for about 4 months. At that point I was served with papers to modify the custody agreement.
He completed the anger management, but was asking to be released from the need for a psych evaluation. He was sent for a drug test, which was positive. The judge ordered he complete the psych evaluation, attend therapy with our kid, and set up supervised visits at a much more accessible facility.
When we reported back, his repeat drug test was still positive, but he got 4 unsupervised hours a week and was told to continue therapy.
Our kid has had a hard time with this, which is what I told the judge. He doesn’t really know his father and doesn’t trust him due to an act of neglect (which is what lead to his dad having supervised visits). I asked for things to go slowly and allow the therapist to help, and it’s going well. Our kiddo is doing better after seeing the therapist with his father regularly, and isn’t so freaked out by his father.
But now I’ve been served with a new motion. His father is claiming I have abused our kid by alienating him from his father. My ex is asking for sole custody and that I only be allowed supervised visitation at his discretion.
How do I defend myself? I don’t know how to prove I didn’t do something, and I’m very scared.
I’m sorry this is so merciless in length. Thank you.
