read The Mail On Sunday..Courts get tough.....

An article in The Mail, page 50 - Judge Orders Boy, 11, To Live With Father He Hates

Although I have just finished a messy court case with my ex wife, this article has given me hope for the future.

Enjoy reading:)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245603...ates-seen-years.html

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thanks nbm1708 - didnt know how to do that

Did make me wonder how the boy could hate his dad who he hadn't seen since he was 7 the all became clear.

Having had to sit back and watch a generally devoted and loving Mum destroy a (all be it frail) relationship with two children between their father over the last ten years and despite seeing the damage being done and trying my hardest to help steer her away from this childish hate campaign of her Ex, listening to her constantly saying that she does not stop him seeing them, he is just not interested bla bla, hearing them on the odd occasion they were brave enough to open up to me say that if they did say they wanted to visit, Mum would either go off on one or load them up with so much guilt (I look after you all the time, when you are sick etc, now you are abandoning me .....) that it was easier for them to say nothing and suffer in silence. This story is not that surprising, I just wish the Courts/CAFCASS etc would accept that PA exists rather than quote the usual line 'its not recoginsed by the experts in the UK' and then start to put in place things that can firstly help to identify where it is happening, why it is happening, how to move forward with the re-introduction of contact with the other parent.

I live in hope.

Yep, the Daily Mail also had an article before xmas about an young teenage girl who is currently taking the CSA to court as she lives with her dad. Her dad is being hounded by the CSA and getting into debt. She says it is her right to live with which ever parent she wants and wants the CSA to drop the case of payments to the ex.
Courageous girl, good luck to her.

This is the URL: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245603...ates-seen-years.html

Hope? There's barely more than a couple of cases like this each year, as if the courts are just showing they can do it when they want. Does it send any sort of message? After a case in 2007 Lord Justice Ward said,

"week after week fathers come to this court protesting that the court is powerless to enforce its orders, quite unable to control the intractable, implacably hostile mother, even though the long-term damage to the child is perfectly obvious. Time after time this court has to mollify the angry father, endeavouring to explain that the judge has a broad discretion and that his decision cannot be challenged unless plainly wrong. This time the boot is on the other foot, and if a different conclusion has been reached in this case then let it be shouted out from the roof-tops."

I don't imagine his lordship has been climbing on many rooftops recently.