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This was a topic I posted about 5 years ago. I thought that I would now (2023) provide an update: it is not strictly topic related but may hopefully will give someone in a similar situation some hope.
Fast forward to the present day: my son is now 17 and has lived with me full time for the last 2 years. This followed a long saga of manipulation from his Mother whereby I didn't see him for about 18 months. Thankfully now he has seen through her behaviour and sees for what it was. He is now no longer in contact with her (this is unfortunate but not encouraged or discouraged from myself, it is just what he has chosen to do following his recent interactions with her).
The thing to extract from this for anyone facing a similar situation is; children do grow up, hopefully will eventually see parental alienation for the ugly truth of what it is and they will not thank the abusing parent for it at all. Evidentially here, the CMS tribunal and the Family Court both made the wrong decision in this case which just facilitated the PA so please bear this in mind if you are facing a similar situation. Best of luck to you all.
@adamski28 Thank you for coming back to update on this, and glad that finally you got a good outcome.
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