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When trying to correct the negative impact that PAS has had on your relationship with
your children, the common sense approach is a waste of time. Often, the only recourse is through legal action in a court
system that does not understand the devastation that PAS can have on the relationship between a parent and a child.
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Tennesse Supreme Court Ruling
There are several published court cases that reflect
the correction of a parent that is causing PAS. One of the best cases on file for your review is Cranston v.Combs from the
Tennesse Surpreme Court at http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/opinions/tsc/PDF/032/Cranston.pdf.
This case clearly demonstrates years of
abuse the mother forced on the children and their father. After four years of court battles, the father was finally able to
get primary custody of the children and started to correct the problems the mother had caused. A sad point to this case is
that the mother is doing the same abuse to her third child with a different father. The father of the third child is in a
continuous battle to stop the abuse, but the new courts are not listening or acknowledging the repetitive behaviour of the
mother.
The following is a downloadable PDF of the Cranston vs Combs link
to the TN Supreme Court.
click here to download file
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Documentation of Adverse Events
Legal advise should be sought from a lawyer that specializes in family
law and has experience with PAS. Of course the legal advise will be thorough and expensive. One important tool that you
could use would be to record the phone conversations with your child and also calls between yourself and the other parent.
Record the messages you leave and then ask the child if they ever received the messages. If you provide your child with their
own cell phone to facilitate communication, you will have a detailed phone record that demonstrates the amount of calls placed
vs. those taken or hang-ups. You will also be able to tell if the child was allowed to hear the messages you left or if they
went unheard. One important note is, if you have an event or conversation you want to admit in court, each event should
be on a separate tape. If you submit a tape with multiple events or conversations, all those events are open for
review. A digital voice recorder would allow you to separate the calls on a separate computer file.
Document everything. Every missed call, every missed visitation
or denied visitation. Use a form such as the Denial of Visitation Form Letter at http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/missed-visit.php. This is a form that should be sent to all parties listed on the links
instructions. Make logs of everything with details of date, time, and what the event was for your records and for future court
dates.
The following are links that will give you a lot of information that will be useful in your attempt
to track and document your situation. These sites provide a parenting time tracker that opens as an Excel spreadsheet
to keep an orderly and detailed report. This report can also be made into a graph of percentages, etc. These reports
can be printed by month, quarter, year, etc to show proof of documentation in a court case. One of these sites provides
a free tracker while the other has a minimal cost but has more options available.
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