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My understanding is that shady accusations of abuse (spousal or child) are totally routine in divorce/custody cases. Lawyers won't explicitly recommend making s

My understanding is that shady accusations of abuse (spousal or child) are totally routine in divorce/custody cases. Lawyers won't explicitly recommend making something up out of whole cloth, which would be subornation of perjury, but they often fish really hard for anything that might be construed that way. The implication that "such an accusation would greatly strengthen your position" is hard to miss and often acted upon. Parental alienation seems like just the other side of the same coin.

epicureanideal 4y ago
> Parental alienation seems like just the other side of the same coin. Except that accusations of parental alienation are still relatively rare, and often frowned upon by the court. False DV claims are routine. The scale of one is much greater than the other. But because one is sometimes used by fathers that one is getting cracked down on in articles, even when it’s maybe 1% of the problem. Where’s the mainstream articles about the epidemic of false DV accusations during divorce?