How Long Will It Take for the Court to Adjust Custody in a Parental Alienation Situation?
You need to ask some other questions first before you get to the answer to the question of how long it will take.
First, can you prove parental alienation to the satisfaction of the judge? If you can’t, then the court won’t even consider modifying the child custody and/or parent-time awards.
Second, if you can prove parental alienation to the satisfaction of the judge, then can you convince the judge that the level of parental alienation is sufficient to warrant a modification of the child custody and/or parent-time awards? If you can’t, then the court won’t modify the child custody and/or parent-time awards.
Third, even if you can prove parental alienation to the satisfaction of the judge and then convince the judge that the level of parental alienation is sufficient to warrant a modification of the child custody and/or parent-time awards, how hard will that be and how long will it take to accomplish that?
For example, if an alienating parent has engaged in excessive and egregious alienating behaviors and has made no secret of his/her alienating behaviors, then the time it will take prove it will likely be less than what it would take to expose the alienating parent if the alienating parent has done a careful and thorough job of concealing or disguising his/her alienating behaviors.
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