How to Take Winning Depositions in Cases Involving Parental Alienation (Part 2)

Parental alienation is a highly counterintuitive area. Family law professionals—judges, lawyers, children’s representatives, guardian’s ad litem, custody evaluators — are often confounded when dealing with PA cases. Seemingly good measures that may have worked in other family law cases do not work in an alienation situation. For instance, as one domestic relations judge realized: Giving a “speech” from the bench to “get through” to an alienating parent does not result in an epiphany or help the situation. Nor will sending off the kids to “therapy.” But such therapies are known to be ineffective. Not only that, they are known to…