Stephanie Pianades went into Massachusetts family court looking for help. That was it. One little thing. She went in looking for one help with one little thing, and it snowballed into a monumental challenge that altered her life and the life of her 10-year-old daughter, and as she says, “it will never go back to the way it was.”
This interview is a cautionary tale about Family Court Abuse, Parental Alienation, DARVO, and Post-separation Abuse. It’s not easy to digest but extremely important for parents. We make assumptions about the court system, the main one being that it will protect our children or us. The dark truth is that this is not the case. The family court system is broken.
Learn the steps to take to prevent court abuse and parental alienation. The first step is finding vetted attorneys who understand the dynamics of narcissistic abuse and how they can weaponize the court system against the other parent. This is a classic case where a mother concerned about her child sought help from the courts to correct her daughter’s co-parent situation and wound up being labeled the abuser — the DARVO scenario where the true abuser flips the script and devises a strategy to punish the healthy parent for trying to help her child. It stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse, Victim and Offender. Unfortunately, this is one term we need to be hyper-aware of because being the caring parent watching out for your child is not enough and can be misconstrued and used against you.
Stop Abuse Campaign offers top-notch resources to help protective parents fight for their children and win against systemic and other forms of abuse. https://stopabusecampaign.org/takeaction/family-court-custody-crisis/help-for-protective-parents/
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Hear and see Stephanie’s testimony before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary regarding Family Court abuse in Worcester Family Court
https://twitter.com/lc_steph/status/1456655485277556742?s=20&t=AAljyxRTAr9oV8d3l4t-Tg
Follow Steph on Twitter and support, retweet, re-post, chime in with similar stories related to family court re-abuse and parental alienation to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/lc_steph
Write or call your local representative to see what you can do to clean up the family court system in your state or country and eliminate family court abuse.
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