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  • #17
    Originally posted by rivgal1964 View Post
    is there any kind of "Law" or is it written anywhere that if a child since the age of 12 no longer wants any contact with biological parent for no apparent reason and when asked the mother why this child cannot or does not have any contact with biological father the only answer given is "the councillor and Doctor" felt in the best interest of the child he shouldn't have contact
    At the age of 12 a judge will begin to listen to the child's reasoning on why the no longer want to attend the other parents parenting time. And depending on the reasons given and maturity of the child, a judge would then determine if the child should be given the ability to determine whether or not they are going to exercise their parenting time.

    A child cannot arbitrarily defy a court order or agreement. So, until the order is changed, the child is supposed to attend the other parents parenting time.

    For your situation, you should have enforced it and said that if the ex wants to leave it to the child's discretion, the ex can seek a court order providing that the child can choose. Otherwise, the child is to attend parenting time and it is the ex's obligation to facilitate and encourage same. If the ex gets the doctors and service providers to testify, than that is on the ex to arrange.

    But no, the child wasn't supposed to have a choice. But by failing to do anything to enforce what the court order provided, you screwed up and there is nothing that can be done now to change it.

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