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"Parental Alienation: Pitfalls and Pearls for Navigating the Legal Arena"

J. Michael Bone, Ph.D. and Steven G. Miller, M.D.

Sunday, June 2, 2019. From 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

As every alienated parent and grandparent knows, cases of parental alienation tend to be difficult. They are difficult for the children, difficult for the parents, and difficult for almost everyone involved, including various mental health and legal professionals, as well as the courts. Likewise, they tend to be difficult to understand, difficult to manage, and difficult to explain. This latter point has major implications for alienated parents who must litigate, mediate, or navigate such cases.

What’s more, it is common knowledge that alienated parents tend to do poorly in the legal arena. Not only do court-appointed professionals often get these cases wrong, they often get them backwards. 

But why? Why do alienated parents tend to do poorly in the legal arena?

The short answer is: For many reasons.

For one thing, the clinical issues are complex and likely to exceed the expertise of any clinician who does not specialize in this area. For another thing, to have a good outcome in court, alienated parents and their attorneys will probably need considerable expertise in presenting clinical issues, clinical evidence, and clinical experts—expertise that is not necessarily common even among first rate attorneys who specialize in family law. For a third thing, the forensic issues are likely to be as complex as the clinical issues, and are likely to exceed the expertise of any attorney or mental health practitioner who does not specialize in this area.

In addition to their child protection work, Dr. Bone and Dr. Miller (who are colleagues but not affiliated with each other) have worked for decades as scientific advisors and trial consultants. Along the way they have been involved with hundreds of cases of alienation and/or estrangement. Drawing on that experience, this presentation will identify some of the forensic issues that typically arise when litigating or mediating cases of PA. Topics will include, among many others: (1) Tips for selecting an attorney who is a good fit for your case. (2) Mediation and settlement issues. (3) The number of  trial days that are typically required for alienated parents to achieve a good outcome at trial. (4) The role and use of expert witnesses in court. (5) How alienated parents and their families can prepare themselves to testify in depositions or in court. (6) Things that alienated parents and their attorneys can do to increase the probability of a good outcome.

It warrants emphasis, however, that Dr. Bone and Dr. Miller are mental health professionals, not attorneys. Consequently, they will not provide any legal advice. Moreover, they will provide only general advice--not specific advice about any particular case. Nonetheless, the material should be of great interest and potential benefit to both parents and professionals, including both mental health and legal professionals. 


Dr. Miller has degrees in both Psychology and Medicine from Brown University and did residency training at Brown University and Harvard Medical School. For more than 30 years he was on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine; in addition, he has many years of experience practicing Behavioral Medicine -- a specialty that focuses on the interface between medicine and psychology. That background is particularly relevant to child maltreatment, child protection, child alignment, parental alienation, pathological enmeshment, and related issues since those clinical conditions are very much related to behavior, including dysfunctional, pathological, and abusive behavior. Likewise, he has several decades of experience practicing Forensic Medicine. A popular speaker, he has directed several hundred continuing education courses for physicians and other clinicians and presented over one thousand lectures on clinical reasoning, clinical problem-solving, and clinical decision-making. An internationally-known expert on alienation and estrangement – and how to distinguish one from the other – he is also an experienced expert witness, litigation consultant, and trial strategist.

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.   His belief is that just as the Family Court system may be easily manipulated by alienating parents, it can also be counter manipulated to reveal and expose the alienation.

These monthly international seminar calls are of no charge. We now have 33 countries participating in these calls. You have the option to call in on our free conference line, audio Skype or download our desk top app. Each caller may submit one question with the question consisting of 2-3 sentences in length. The questions must be in relation to the subject of this call. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Deadline to register is Sunday, June 2, 2019. These are firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.

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www.familyaccessfightingforchildrensrights.org/parental--grandparent-alienation--equal-shared-parenting-symposium.html 

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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 on 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.
  • 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. 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 7 1/2 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. 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 33 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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