The Risk of Parental Alienation

As discussed in prior posts, parental alienation is an insidious tactic used by one parent against another to attempt to turn children against another parent.  Custodial parents who do this should be aware of the enormous psychological and emotion trauma they inflict on their children.  But aside from that, the Second Department has recently re-affirmed its fealty to the idea that a custodial parent who goes to such efforts to alienate a child from another parent runs the further risk of losing his or her right to child support.  The full decision can be seen here. 

In making this decision, the non-custodial parent who finds themselves alienated from the child now has a powerful weapon in their arsenal.  They should not hesitate to use it.