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"Dealing with Custody Evaluations in Cases with Parental Alienation"
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On Sunday, March 1, 2020 from 8-10 PM EST, we will have our international seminar call. Our guest speakers for this call will be Dr. J Michael Bone and Dr. Bob Evans.These calls are complimentary and are of no charge to any of you. This is a ministry of Family Access - Fighting for Children's Rights. We have over 1,000 callers participating in these calls in 37 countries. These calls are for alienated family members giving you much knowledge and support to deal with the hell on earth called alienation. These calls are also a huge asset to those in the mental health and legal professions as well as researchers, writers and child advocates who work in the field of alienation. Please make it a priority to join us as there are NO replays. You have the option of calling in on our free conference line, audio skype or download our desk top app.

Each caller may submit 1 question that consists of no more than 2-3 sentences in length. The question must be in relation to the subject of this call to be submitted. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, February 25 2020. Deadline to register for this call is Sunday, March 1, 2020 by 5 PM EST. These are firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.

One common phenomenon that occurs in cases involving Parental Alienation (PA) is that of psychological and custody type evaluations.  Courts often order such evaluations to get more information and detail about the case and most significantly to get recommendations from the evaluator to aid the court in its decision making responsibilities about the child’s best interest.  There are special challenges with these evaluations in cases where PA is present.  First, it is statistically likely that the given evaluator may not be competent to identify PA.  Most forensic evaluators will claim familiarity with PA, but this is far from being competent in it.  From our perspective, this is a very common occurrence.  Many such evaluations of families where PA is present are not identified as such, in spite of the data points that identify PA are visible and in plain sight, so to speak.  Secondly, if a child is alienated, the evaluator must determine the accuracy and validity of any complaint the alienated child may make about the targeted or unfavored parent, as opposed to taking it at face value.  Failure to be aware of this and then to be competent in its critique will cause the evaluator to get the case nearly 100% wrong.

This call is devoted to these evaluations and how to survive them and to understand and critique them.  The call will be divided into two parts.

The first will be to outline the standards and guidelines that such evaluations are to follow, which is set by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC).   When these guidelines are not followed errors occur and this is especially the case with PA cases.  The first part of the call will discuss this in detail with examples.  In our work, we often find ourselves critiquing these evaluations where evidence of alienation is clear, but not identified as such by the evaluator.  This is sadly a common occurrence.   In the vast majority of these cases, we find that the various applicable APA and AFCC Guidelines have not been followed.  There are three specific APA guidelines that are applicable to these evaluations and all three will be identified and discussed in detail, showing how failure to follow them leads to a failure to identify the presence of PA.

The second part of the call is devoted to how a targeted parent is to best approach being a subject of one of these evaluations, and how to best tell the story.  The targeted parent about to undergo such an evaluation can increase the likelihood that the evaluator identifies the presence of PA if they approach the task with certain strategies in mind.  For example, it is risky and unwise to attack the alienating parent too directly, since doing so runs the risk of improperly confirming the alienating parent’s false vilification of the targeted parent as being angry and out of control.  There are however ways to reveal the alienation without engaging in a dangerous attack and these are discussed in detail. As further example, the targeted parent is wise to prepare for the evaluation in advance, in specific ways that decrease the evaluators chance of missing the presence of the alienating parents improper and alienating influence.  Strategies and tactics to be employed by the targeted parent are presented and discussed with examples.  The purpose of these strategies is to reduce the chances that the evaluator misses the alienation that is present.

J MICHAEL BONE, PhD

J Michael Bone received his Master’s and Doctoral Degrees at the New School for Social Research, in New York City.  He did his clinical training at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, and eventually had consulting and training responsibilities in their Department of Psychiatry.   Upon return to his home in Orlando, Florida, he began a general clinical psychotherapy practice.  By the mid 1990’s he began to work in the area of high conflict divorce, which eventually and inevitably led him to the problem of Parental Alienation.  In the late 1990’s he published several articles on the problem and was invited to become a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the Parental Alienation Research Foundation in Washington DC.  It was there that he met Richard Gardner, MD, as well as many of the first pioneers in this field.  From that period onward, his focus has been increasingly on the problem of grappling with Parental Alienation.  In 2006 he closed his clinical practice, stopped seeing patients, and began to work exclusively on the problem of Parental Alienation in a purely consultative capacity.  In that role he has  become involved in cases all over the United States and Canada.  He has spoken at multiple professional conferences devoted to Parental Alienation in the United States, Canada and western Europe, and has been interviewed on many radio and talk programs, including Anderson Cooper.  The most recent focus on his work has been on the challenge of how to best present Parental Alienation to the Family Court system, in ways that produce healing remedies, which will be a primary focus of this conference.   

ROBERT A. EVANS, PhD

Dr. Evans is a licensed school psychologist and has been practicing Forensic Psychology for over 25 years throughout the U.S.  His forensic services include expert testimony in family law cases with a focus on Parental Alienation (PA), including allegations of parental rejection, child abuse, sex abuse, and estrangement.  He is trained as a Family Divorce Mediator, Parenting Coordinator, Guardian ad Litem, Collaborative Law Practice, and Child Custody Evaluator.  In 2011, he authored the book, The Essentials of Parent Alienation Syndrome, and a number of articles for bar association journals and publications.  He has testified as an expert on PA in numerous courts across the U.S. as to what PA is, how to identify it, and how to rehabilitate it.  He has conducted in excess of a hundred child custody evaluations in his career thus far.  Dr. Evans is an approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists by the American Psychological Association.  He is the co-founder of the National Association of Parental Alienation Specialists (NAOPAS.com).  In addition he has been approved by many legal bar associations to conduct continuing legal education on a variety of topics, including Litigating Family Law Cases with Parent Alienation, Critiquing and Reviewing Child Custody Evaluations and An Overview of Established Rehabilitation Programs. 


"How to litigate and otherwise manage a case of parental alienation" 

   On Sunday, March 15, 2020 we will have an international seminar call from 8-9 PM EST. Our guest speaker will be Robert Hoffman, P.L.L.C. All of our calls are complimentary and of no charge to anyone. This is a ministry of Family Access-Fighting for Children's Rights. These calls are an excellent source for both alienated family members as well as professionals who deal in alienation. Please take advantage of these calls. We have over 1,000 participants on these calls from 37 countries.

Among other things, Mr. Hoffman will address how targeted parents can avoid certain predictable pitfalls. Specific topics will include direct examination of experts for the targeted parents, cross-examination of experts for the alienating parents, and both direct and cross examinations of court-appointed experts including custody evaluators, psychological or psychiatric evaluators, guardians ad litem, visitation supervisors, parenting coordinators, and others. Another key theme will be how to distinguish between science and pseudoscience in the courtroom. Because Mr. Hoffman will focus on basic principles – including practical considerations for dealing with alienating parents and also court-appointed professionals – this is likely to be extraordinarily helpful not only to litigating parents and their attorneys, but to alienated parents and grandparents in general.


Robert Hoffman is Board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is also a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Robert has been practicing family law for 33 years. He has been successful in handling as lead counsel numerous bench and jury trials and negotiating highly contested child custody battles, high net worth divorces, complex financial disputes and cases involving parental alienation. He successfully represented Kelly Jones against Alex Jones (Infowars fame) in a jury trial in Austin, Texas in 2016. He is well-known and specializes in trying complex cases. Robert enjoys working closely with and advocating for people at a critical time in their lives. Robert has been consistently included in Texas Super Lawyers 2003-2019 and Best Lawyers US 2008-2020. 

On this call we will not questions submitted. Deadline to register for this call is Sunday, March 15th by 5 PM EST. To register, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com. You have the option to call in on our conference line, audio skype or download our desk top app.
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EXCELLENT READ FROM DR. ROBERT EVANS. JUST A SAMPLE OF WHAT YOU WILL GET AT OUR OCTOBER CONFERENCE
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MISSION  STATEMENT

Our main concern is the children and grandchildren and then the complete family.  Sadly the children and grandchildren who are alienated from family are being treated as pawns and property. They are neither. They are human beings.They should not be regarded as such by their parents or any other family member.  We contend that it should be illegal to use children as pawns or instruments of spiteful behavior in an effort to prevent them from interaction with ALL other family members.  Our purpose and goal is to ensure the preservation of extended, traditional family relationships. In the process of this hell on earth called alienation, we need all the knowledge and support we can get to help our children and grandchildren and then ourselves. To contact us, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
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GOALS

  • We will work in bringing awareness to people on the subject of alienation and the effects it has on both the children, grandchildren and their families. Alienation is abuse! We will have many of our top experts and professionals regarding alienation in the world sharing information on their own pages here to help you learn more on alienation and other topics regarding alienation. We are also expanding our web site with much more information including locations of support groups in your area, professionals in your area who do have knowledge of alienation as well as blogs by experts and testimonies from alienated family members and also books that can help you on this subject of alienation.
  • To offer international seminar calls with guest speakers who have expertise in the subject matter for that call in giving support and knowledge to alienated family members and professionals who work in the field of alienation. Parental alienation and grandparent alienation and all other family members is hell on earth as too it is for the children and grandchildren dealing with this. These calls are a tremendous help to those going through this and those who work with those who are. There is no charge to any of this as this is a ministry to help those in need and also help professionals in dealing with this. Please join us.

HISTORY

In April 2012, Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights was founded by Elaine Cobb who is also president. Elaine herself is alienated from her granddaughter Dare who she has never seen and is now 8 years old and her adult son Bryan who she has not seen since December 26, 2010. Her granddaughter Dare is alienated from her whole side of her daddy's family. This is why she determined to try in helping make a difference in this abuse being caused to the children, grandchildren and family members. In the beginning, her goal was to help those in the state of North Carolina where the founder  and president, Elaine Cobb resides. In just a short time, Elaine realized that alienation was a huge epidemic which was indeed all over our world. She realized at that time she wanted to do all that she could to help those suffering through this hell on earth. This is her ministry and she charges no one for any of our sources for you. She started the international seminar calls nationwide. In less than a year, she took the calls on an international level. Now Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights helps in supporting 36 countries in educating as many alienated family members and professionals in regards to alienation through our international seminar calls. 

We also know one of the biggest ways to defeat alienation is to bring more awareness to those who know nothing or very little about alienation. This website was designed with that in mind as well as giving information to alienated family members to help them know all they can to get through this and one day hopefully be able to see their alienated loved ones. It is also here to help professionals i.e.., attorneys, mental health professionals, judges, legislators, school officials, researchers, writers, child advocates, etc. There is much to learn and we hope to give all as much as we can to help.

Laws must be changed as well to protect the rights of these alienated children and grandchildren to see ALL their family members. Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights has worked tirelessly for equal shared parenting laws as well as grandparents' rights. We will continue in this fight for all the children and grandchildren in our world. Alienation is abuse!!! 
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