Parental Alienation in Minnesota

Are you facing parental alienation with your children?

Some parents engage in alienating their children against the other parent after a divorce or relationship break up. This damaging activity can involve constantly making negative remarks or comments about the other parent. One of the most common results of a parent who engages in this activity is a child or children refusing to visit the other parent. In cases in which one parent makes hostile remarks and belittles the other parent in comments to their shared children, there are legal actions that could be taken that could affect child custody. A Minnesota divorce lawyer from Heimerl & Lammers can help you get this difficult issue brought to the attention of the court.

Child Custody and Family Law Attorney in Minnesota

The court will determine how custody will be arranged when a divorce is litigated in court. For those who choose to engage in a divorce mediation or collaborative divorce, the agreement will be established prior to going to court, and there is no need to take the court's time and efforts to try to sort out the conflict. In some cases, the communication between the two parents is so difficult that negotiations are impossible. There are cases in which one parent may be making unreasonable demands that cannot be resolved a trial is the only way to get the matter finally resolved. When parental alienation has been taking place, the court may be swayed in favor of the other parent with regard to custody. The best interest of the child is their concern, and they do not look kindly upon a parent who is making efforts to turn a child against the other parent, particularly in child custody litigation.

Parents may not agree and may have serious personal difficulties and the inability to communicate in a respectful manner. This situation should not transfer to the children, and a parent that is making ongoing negative comments can damage the child's relationship with their other parent, resulting in the child refusing to visit or talk to their other parent, or passing on the negative comments. Children should be completely left out of the equation when there is a bitter divorce, no matter how difficult it may be for a former partner to avoid it.

When parental alienation has occurred, it may sabotage any effort to get custody of the children through alienating them from their other parent; bringing the fact of the ongoing efforts to alienate the children to the attention of the court, fully documented, will likely have an effect on the final outcome of a child custody case. If you are suffering the tragic results of an effort to alienate your children from you, we urge you to contact our firm at once. We will evaluate your situation and help you to determine what can be done to legally address the issue and bring it to a resolution before further damage is done.

Contact a Minnesota child custody lawyer from our firm to discuss the issue of parental alienation as it relates to a child custody case.