| When divorce and domestic violence are before the | | | | Most typically, we see counsel seeking to establish |
| court, the children can often serve as the vehicle for | | | | items b & c in combination, as this makes for a |
| the perpetrator to save face and maintain control | | | | more substantial case. And further, this strategy is |
| over the family. Sound familiar? | | | | often a best first measure to carry out a |
| If you are in family court with an abusive partner, or | | | | perpetrator's mission of eliminating the protective |
| abusive ex-partner, and there are children involved, | | | | parent from their children's lives. |
| you will want to know what this article reveals. Here | | | | Crazing Making Legal Psychiatric Ploys |
| is how your children can be leveraged to carry out a | | | | Now if after psychiatric evaluations, there is no |
| perpetrator's agenda in family court. | | | | evidence that the mother (the gender most often in |
| Laying the Foundation to Maintain Control over the | | | | this position) is "crazy" because the evaluating |
| Family | | | | psychiatrist cannot-or will not-find any psychiatric |
| Let's say the perpetrator establishes that he wants | | | | pathology, then the rush is on to find-or create-"the |
| to ask the court for sole custody of your minor | | | | craziness" in the children. |
| children whom he has also abused, either directly or | | | | The strategy here is that if we can't show that the |
| indirectly. In many cases this so-called asking may | | | | mother is crazy, we'll establish that the children are |
| happen even if the perpetrator is not a candidate for | | | | either crazy or going crazy under her care. This is |
| custody. | | | | how children become casualties in an abuser's use of |
| Now once the pleading is before the court, and | | | | the court to control and batter their victims. |
| typically for a long time (could be years), the chase is | | | | Now making a child crazy can take days, months or |
| on-even though a so-called custody battle is | | | | years. And if there are two or more children involved, |
| technically not underway. | | | | making more than one child psychologically unstable |
| What is underway is a mission to create a scenario | | | | makes for even a stronger case, even if you are the |
| to establish that the perpetrator (whether or not a | | | | recognized psychological parent of your children. |
| candidate for custody by law) is indeed an eligible | | | | If you have witnessed this legal psychiatric ploy in |
| person for custody because:a) this parent is the only | | | | your divorce proceeding or a glimpse of it coming, |
| parent leftb) the other parent is crazy or is a felonc) | | | | learn to block it and protect your children and |
| this parent is a victim of parental alienation syndrome | | | | yourself before the ploy spirals out of control. |
| ...or, any combination of the above. | | | | |