Lary Holland: Official Blog, Links, and Resources (Entries tagged as chrissy chrzanowski)

Children Need Both Parents: Happy Thanksgiving and Special Episode of Get Off The Bench

laryholland@sbcglobal.net (Lary Holland) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:00:56 -0500

Children Need Both Parents: Happy Thanksgiving to all on this very important holiday. Many are without their children through these times, which definitely takes its' toll on people, so we decided to have a special episode. Last night on Get Your Justice Live we discussed making it through the holidays, had some prayer time, and also shared information from Chrissy Chrzanowski, Pamela Wright, and other participants.

Chrissy Chrzanowski, an adult survivor of Parental Alienation has a parental alienation support website at http://www.parentalienationhurts.com and shares some tips on making it through the holidays without your children.

Pamela Wright, from the Alliance for Single Parents, that assists parents through high-conflict at http://www.allianceforsingleparents.com/ shared some tips about high-conflict court cases and the trying holiday times.

Get Your Justice Live Thanksgiving Special Episode

Be sure to continue spreading the word about "Get Your Justice Live" which remains the number one talk show about issues relating to family court and government policies over the family.

Michigan Equal Parenting Rally: Legislators are Ready to Press the Button

laryholland@sbcglobal.net (Lary Holland) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:24:23 -0400

Lansing, Michigan. Several Michigan State Legislators voiced their positions and willingness to "press the button now" to allow voters the chance to approve a landmark parental rights amendment to the Michigan State Constitution. "Michigan Legislators and Family Rights Organizations from West Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan were present and in support of House Joint Resolution NN, which is the first of its kind nationwide," according to Lary Holland, Executive Director of Write to Parent, Inc.

Original Article: http://www.laryholland.com/serendipity/archives/537-Michigan-Legislators-and-Family-Rights-Organizations-Set-to-Rally-Tuesday-September-23,-2008.html

WLNS Channel 6: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=765393&nav=menu25_1_1_12

Michigan's House Joint Resolution NN in pertinent part: "Parents and Legal Guardians have a natural and fundamental right to direct the care, education, and upbringing of their children. No government action shall burden, abridge, or hinder this natural, fundamental right unless it is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest."

Youtube: Lary Holland at Equal Parenting Rally

Youtube: Michigan Representative Rick Jones

Youtube: Michigan Representative Candidate (43rd District) Scott Hudson

Youtube: Michigan Representative John Garfield

Youtube: Chrissy Chrzanowski on Parental Alienation and Parental Rights

More Youtube Videos Will Be Released on Sunday September 28, 2008 so check back soon! Michigan Representative Jack Hoogendyk, Dave Taylor of the Oakland County Friend of the Court Citizen Advisory Committee, Michigan Representative Marty Knollenberg, Michigan Representative Fulton Sheen, Michigan Representative Candidate David C. Irons, Dads and Moms Representative Andrew Thompson, Michigan Representative Kim Meltzer, Michigan Representative John Stahl. Also, stay tuned for video of Alec Baldwin and Parental Alienation.

Lee PAS Foundation Represents America at the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation

laryholland@sbcglobal.net (Lary Holland) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:21:18 -0400

From Family Court Reports

The Lee PAS Foundation Announces Participation with the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome in Toronto, Canada. The event will be occurring March 27th through March 29, 2009 in the beautiful city of Toronto.

Chrissy Chrzanowski will be introducing at least one speaker and providing an account of her experience as an adult survivor of Parental Alienation. She will be joining the ranks of doctors, lawyers, and other mental health professionals that are well-known in the Parental Alienation Community.

Some of the speaker profiles are:
http://cspas.ca/speaker_profiles.shtml

"The Canadian Symposium For Parental Alienation Syndrome (CS - PAS), is an educational conference for Canadian and international mental health professionals, family law attorney's and other professionals dedicated to the prevention and treatment of Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome."

This is only one of the many events that are being scheduled over the next year to raise awareness of Parental Alienation, Parental Alienation Syndrome, and the effects of an adversarial family court system over children and families.

Chrissy Chrzanowski, an adult survivor of Parental Alienation, will be providing a first-hand account of her experiences as a child navigating the hurt and manipulation that occurs with parental alienation through childhood and reunification in adulthood.

Speaker Profiles

Pamela Richardson

www.akidnappedmind.com

Pamela Richardson has hosted television's The Saturday Show and The
Vancouver Show, and written and produced pieces for magazines and other
television programs. Today she is a full-time mother to her two
teenaged boys and lives in Vancouver with her husband, David. She
continues to work with many school and community organizations,
speaking at private and public events, meeting with legal
professionals, counselors, other parents whose children have been
alienated from them, as well as the media and other groups, bringing a
much-needed awareness of the damage that can be done by alienating a
child from a once-loved parent.

Amy J. L. Baker, Ph.D.

www.amyjlbaker.com

Dr.
Baker has a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Teachers College of
Columbia University. Her areas of research include parental alienation,
child welfare, parent involvement in their children's education, early
intervention, and attachment. She is the Director of Research at the
Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection. She is the author or
co-author of 3 books and over 45 peer reviewed articles.

J. Michael Bone, Ph.D.

J. Michael Bone, Ph.D. has been
working in the area of Parental Alienation and high conflict divorce
for the last two decades. He worked directly with Richard Gardner, M.D.
on multiple cases, and consulted with him on a regular basis. Directly
related to this work, he served on the Scientific and Professional
Advisory Board of the Parental Alienation Research Foundation in
Washington D.C., along with Dr. Gardner, Richard Warshak, Ph.D., Randy
Rand, Ed.D., and Dierdre Rand, PhD, among others. He has provided both
mental health and legal continuing education training to lawyers and
mental health professionals regarding parental alienation in multiple
states. He has served as court appointed evaluator, therapist and
expert witness in numerous cases involving Parental Alienation in as
many states, and has consulted with and made recommendations to courts
across the country. He has presented at numerous conferences across the
United States concerning Parental Alienation, and has appeared on both
radio and television concerning this problem, most recently on The
Anderson Cooper show. He is published in professional journals, as well
as in the popular press. He serves on the Board of Directors of
Lakeside Behavioral Health, Inc., and is also its Chair of Quality
Assurance. He has maintained a Private Practice for over twenty five
years in Florida, and has most recently has opened a consulting
practice devoted exclusively to the problem of Parental Alienation. In
this capacity, Dr. Bone is President of JMB Consulting, P.A., which
provides educational and consultative services to both parents and
attorneys in cases involving the alienation of children.

Jayne Major, Ph.D.

www.breakthroughparenting.com/pas.htm

Jayne A. Major, Ph.D. is the founder of Stop Parental Alienation of
Children and the author of numerous articles on parental alienation and
parental alienation syndrome. At her Los Angeles agency Breakthrough
Parenting Services she specializes in parent education classes and
counseling for individuals who are litigating their cases in family law
court. Her most recent article is the Causes, Costs and Controversies of Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome.

Richard Sauber, Ph.D.

S. Richard Sauber, Ph.D. has been in practice for 30 years as a
forensic family and clinical psychologist who specializes in the
evaluation, consultation, and treatment of complex litigenous family
law cases. He is Board Certified in Family and Clinical psychology by
the American Board of Professional Psychology. Trained at Harvard
University in this area of expertise, he has been court appointed or
retained as an expert throughout the United States and Canada.
Formerly, Dr. Sauber was Professor of Family and Clinical Psychology in
the Dapartments of Psychiatry at the Medical Schools at Columbia,
Brown, and the University of Penn..At the latter two Medical Schools,
he was Director of their Post-doctoral Training Program in Family
Psychology, Family Therapy, and Family Forensic Psychology. He has been
on the Founding Board of Directors of the Academy of Family Mediators
and the National Academy of Professional Custody Evaluators. He also
serves on the Adviso ry Board of the Children's Rights Council in
Washington, D.C.. Since 1976, Dr. Sauber has been the Editor-in- Chief
of The American Journal of Family Therapy and his most recent book with
Richard Gardner, M.D. and Demosthenes Lorandos, J.D., Ph.D. was the
International Handbook of PAS: Conceptual, Clinical, and Legal
Considerations.

Terence Campbell, Ph.D., ABPP

www.campsych.com

Subsequent
to receiving his baccalaureate degree from Western Michigan University
in 1965, Dr. Campbell completed his doctoral degree in Human
Development and Clinical Psychology at the University of Maryland in
1970. He has also done postdoctoral training in family psychology and
family therapy at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Dr.
Campbell was a co-founder of the Psychodjagnostic and Family Services
Clinic of the Macomb County (Michigan) Circuit Court in 1972.

Dr. Campbell's publications have appeared in various scientific and professional journals including
American Journal of Forensic Psychology, American Journal of Forensic
Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Issues in Child Abuse
Accusations, Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, Journal of
Systemic Therapies, Michigan Bar Journal, Michigan Lawyers Weekly, and
Psychotherapy. His work has also been reprinted in the Norwegian journal, Fokus Pas Familien.

Dr. Campbell's first book - Beware The Talking Cure: Psychotherapy May Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health published by Upton Books, an imprint of SIRS Publishing, was released in September of 1994. His second book - Smoke and Mirrors: The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims - was released by Insight Books, a division of Plenum Publishing, in September of 1998. His third book - Cross-Examining Experts in the Behavioral Sciences
- (co-authored with D.A. Lorandos, Ph.D., J.D.) was released by the
West Group in September 2001 with annual updates for every year
begining in 2003. Dr. Campbell's fourth book - Assessing Sex Offenders: Problems and Pitfalls
- Was published by Charles C. Thomas in July 2004 as part of its
American Series in the Behavioral Sciences and Law. His fifth book - Benchbook in the Behavioral Sciences: Psychiatry, Psychology, and Social Work - (co-authored with D.A. Lorandos, Ph.D., J,D.) was released by Carolina Academic Press in April 2005.

Dr. Campbell has served on the editorial board of the Journal of
Systemic Therapies. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sexual Offender Civil Commitment: Science and the Law.
He is a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the
False Memory Syndrome Foundation of Philadelphia. He also serves on the
Scientific Advisory Board of the National Association for Consumer
Protection in Mental Health Practices. He has been designated a Fellow
of the American Psychological Society in recognition of "a
distinguished contribution to psychological science." He is also board
certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional
Psychology. Dr. Campbell has also ban listed in Who's Who in America since the 56th edition in 2002.

In addition to his treatment practice, Dr. Campbell frequently assists
attorneys in matters related to appropriate standards of practice,
evidentiary reliability in forensic psychology, eyewitness
identifications, coerced confessions, child custody and visitation
evaluations, allegations of child sexual abuse, and claims of repressed
memories. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous states and
the Dominion of Canada.

Dr. Douglas Darnell, Ph.D.

www.parentalalienation.com

Dr.
Darnall has appeared in court on over one hundred cases in eleven (11)
states involving issues of custody, parental alienation syndrome,
parental alienation, and other forensic matters. He has also appeared
on the Montel Show and Court TV. Reference to his work has been written
up in over 50 newspaper articles. He has given presentations at both
State and National Conferences including the Missouri State Bar and
North Dakota State Bar Associations, AFCC, Children's Rights Council,
and Local and State Bar Associations addressing visitation of
alienation and parenting.

PUBLICATIONS

"Divorce Casualties: Protecting Your Children from Parental Alienation." Published by Taylor Publishing. 1998

"Not in the Best Interest of the Child," North Dakota Law Review, August, 1999

"Parental
Alienation and its Impact on Legal and Mental Health Systems. Part I
and II. DVD" (223) Life Messages, Inc.
Baker, A.J.L., & Darnall, D. (2006) Behaviors and strategies of
parental alienation: A survey of parental experiences. Journal of
Divorce and Remarriage, 45 (1/2) 97-124.

Baker, A.J.L. & Darnall, D. (2007) A Construct Validation Study of
the Eight Components of Parental Alienation Syndrome. Journal of
Divorce and Remarriage. 47(1/2) 55-75.

Darnall, D.C. & Steinberg, B.F. (2008) Motivational models for
spontaneous reunification with alienated children - Part I. Article
accepted for publication. Journal of Family Therapy.

Darnall, D.C. & Steinberg, B.F. (2008) Motivational models for
spontaneous reunification with alienated children - Part II. Article
accepted for publication. Journal of Family Therapy.

Dr. Glenn Ross Caddy

Dr. Caddy is a licensed Clinical and
Forensic Psychologist in the State of Florida and the State of New
South Wales, in Australia. He holds Diplomate and/or Fellowship status
within the American Board of Clinical Psychology, the Behavior Therapy
and Research Society, the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine,
the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, the American Academy of
Forensic Examiners, the International Academy of Eclectic
Psychotherapy, and the American Board of Sexology. He is a member of
the American Psychological Association, the American Association of
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, and a member of both the Colleges of
Clinical and Forensic Psychology of the Australian Psychological
Society.

Dr. Caddy holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) and a Doctor of Philosophy
from the University of New South Wales, Australia. During his graduate
education Glenn became a Commonwealth Scholar and thereafter a
Commonwealth University Fellow. He also has served as a Commissioned
Officer in the Royal Australian Army and an Intelligence Officer in the
Australian Security Intelligence Organization.

In the mid 1970s Dr. Caddy took up a research scientist position at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Thereafter he was promoted to
progressively more senior academic appointments at several major
universities and medical Schools, becoming a full professor and head of
a school by the mid 1980's at Nova Southeastern University and Medical
School. Dr. Caddy has served on the editorial board of a number of
scientific journals, and for ten years he was the series editor in
clinical psychology and behavioral medicine for a major publishing
house. Dr. Caddy also has published over one hundred peer reviewed
scientific manuscripts, numerous monographs, four books, and various
internet-based distance learning applications. During these years and
subsequently, Dr. Caddy has also consulted for numerous organizations
ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the United States Air
Force to the Veterans Administration, and many governmental and
non-governmental institutions.

In 1990 Dr. Caddy left full time academic work and entered the full
time practice of clinical and forensic psychology. In that context he
has directed the American Academy of Behavioral Medicine, the Institute
of Forensic and Behavioral Psychology, and Dr Glenn R. Caddy and
Associates. While in these various roles Dr Caddy has served very
broadly as a clinician and expert in literally thousands of cases and
legally related events. He is especially well know for matters of high
trauma including cases involving traumatic injury, war crimes and
torture, cult issues and mind control. In the latter in particular Dr.
Caddy has done a great deal of work in the area of Parental Alienation.

Dr. Caddy lives with his wife and three of his four children in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Demosthenes Lorandos, J.D., Ph.D.

www.lorandoslaw.com/lorandos-cv.php

Dr. Lorandos received his B.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State
University. He attended the New School for Social Research in New York
City, studying the principles and methodology of science. He earned the
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences scholarship award.

He spent the next four years studying the philosophy of
science at an experimental university, earning a Ph.D. in 1976. He
served two clinical internships and completed his doctorate in Clinical
Psychology with Union Graduate School in Cincinnati.

Dr. Lorandos taught as an assistant, then associate, professor at
Indiana University, Saginaw Valley State College, and Central Michigan
University.

He created the largest private Vietnam veterans treatment
program in the United States, which won national recognition from the
Vietnam Veterans of America.

As a research scientist, he has published both commentary and original scientific research in many scientific journals.

He has also published three books: Cross-Examining Experts in the Behavioral Sciences (co-authored with Dr. Terence Campbell); Benchbook in the Behavioral Sciences: Psychiatry – Psychology – Social Work (co-authored with Dr. Terence Campbell); and The International Handbook of Parental Alienation Syndrome – Conceptual, clinical and Legal Perspectives which brings contributors from all over the world together to discuss this important phenomena.

Dr. Lorandos retired from the active practice of clinical psychology to
attend the University of Detroit Law School, where he graduated with
honors in 1991. He is licensed in New York, California and Michigan an
attorney, and in California and Michigan as a psychologist.

Dr. Lorandos maintains an educational website at: www.falsely-accused.net.

Abraham Worenklein, Ph.D.

Abe Worenklein, Ph.D. has been in practice for more than 30 years as a
clinical and forensic family psychologist who specializes in the
evaluation of high conflict and highly litigious situations involving
parental alienation, child sexual abuse allegations, and relocation
disputes. He has been declared an expert witness by courts in Canada
and the United States and has presented at professional conferences in
Canada, the United States and Europe. He has testified in more than 600
trials and has been an expert witness in some of the early
groundbreaking cases in Quebec on parental alienation. Dr. Worenklein
received his Ph.D. at the Universite de Montreal and is a professor at
Dawson College in Montreal and an adjuct at Concordia University, where
he has taught Forensic Psychology, Psychology and the Law, etc. In
addition to the high conflict family evaluations that he conducts, he
also has been certified as a family mediator with advanced training. In
addition to being licensed by the Ordre des Psychologues du Quebec, he
is also a member of th Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in
Psychology and has a Certifcate of Professional Qualification by the
Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.

Gene Colman - Gene C. Colman Family Law Center

www.4famlaw.com

Gene
C. Colman is a Toronto family law lawyer. He was called to the bar in
1979. From its inception in 1980 until 1988, he represented children
in Hamilton's Unified Family Court as a member of the Official
Guardian's Child Representation Panel. He has authored many articles
and has spoken to a number of groups over the years on many family law
issues. Amongst his public service endeavours are: founding editor of
the Canadian Journal of Family Law and current member of its advisory board; founding member of the Canadian Equal Parenting Council
and its secretary-treasurer; past president of his community homeowners
association and current executive member. Gene has a special interest
in parental alienation. He is dedicated to gender equality and equal
treatment for all in Ontario's courts.

Anne-France Goldwater - Goldwater, Dube Attorneys At Law

www.goldwaterdube.com

Anne-France Goldwater is a Montreal family law lawyer, senior partner of the
firm Goldwater, Dubé. She is a graduate of McGill University, and was called
to the Bar in 1981. She has authored articles on parental alienation,
international kidnapping and bankruptcy and family law, and is presently
completing an article on unjustified enrichment between common law spouses.
Her practice highlights include establishing precedents on the recognition
of parental alienation syndrome by the courts, the right of children to the
attorney of their choice and to claim party status, as well as disparate
children¹s rights such as lump sum support and mandatory reinstatement in a
private educational institution.

She also successfully challenged the federal and provincial laws forbidding
marriage for same-sex couples, thereby obtaining the right of same-sex
couples to marry. For this achievement, she won the Canadian Bar Association
SOGIC Ally Award in 2003, for contributions made in the cases of equality
for lesbian and gay couples.

She successfully challenged the validity of laws preventing women from
executing their own alimony and child support orders. She advanced the
protection of privacy rights in family matters in the context of paternity
litigation between a same-sex couple and the sperm donor. She has obtained
the highest child support orders in Quebec, and the highest provisions for
cost in a matrimonial matter. She is presently challenging the
constitutionality of the federal definition of marriage in the Civil
Marriage Act, and challenging the constitutionality of Quebec's failure to
grant rights to common law couples. She is also challenging the
constitutionality of the Quebec Child Support Guidelines.

Michael Gough - President - Internet Visitation

www.internetvisitation.net

Michael is Principal of www.internetvisitation.net
& the leading expert on Virtual Visitation for use in divorce,
custody and Parental Alienation cases. In addition, Michael is a
nationally recognized supporter of Virtual Visitation & has
extensive court experience on the subject of getting Virtual Visitation
in a long distance & local situations. Michael is responsible for
the first four Virtual Visitation Laws in the United States in Utah,
Wisconsin, Texas & Florida and is actively seeking legislation with
the help of others in over 25 states. In addition, Michael's efforts
have been recognized in various publications worldwide.

Michael has presented to several State Legal conferences as
well as Family Law groups and others on Virtual Visitation. Michael
writes articles on Virtual Visitation for many websites and
publications as well as a published author with two books... Video Conferencing over IP and Skype Me! by Syngress Press available through his website, Amazon or your local bookstore.

In addition, Michael is a Computer Security Consultant for a large
computer consultancy & services Fortune 500 accounts & is
uniquely qualified to address security & privacy concerns
surrounding Virtual Visitation.

C. Gwendolyn Landolt - National Vice President - Real Women Of Canada

www.realwomenca.com

C.
Gwendolyn Landolt graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of
British Columbia, Canada and was called to the British Columbia Bar.

She has had an extensive legal career in private practice, as a Crown
prosecutor and as a lawyer with the federal government where she
specialized in immigration and aboriginal affairs.

Gwen has written extensively on constitutional issues, in
particular the Canadian Charter of Rights and has participated in many
cases before the Supreme Court of Canada on pro-life and pro-family
issues.

Gwen is one of the founders and is currently National Vice
President of REAL Women of Canada, a national women's organization
founded in 1983. The organization is committed to the protection of the
traditional family and human life, both in Canada and internationally.
REAL Women is an NGO in SPECIAL consultative status with the Economic
and Social Council of the United Nations.

Susan Cook - Susan Cook Mediation & Family Services

www.susancookmediation.com

Susan
Cook has been working in York Region for several years and is a member
of the Ontario Association for Family Mediation (Accreditation pending)
and the York Collaborative Practice.

Susan has extensive experience working in both the Criminal and Family
Courts of York Region and while providing mental health assessments for
Criminal Court, Susan recognized a gap in service in the Family Courts
where she then proposed, developed and maintained the Family Court
Worker Program. Susan provided mediation services within that Program
and worked on cases involving York Region Children's Aid Society and
local schools, as well as conducted training for York Region Police
Services.

Susan trained as a family mediator with Barbara Landau prior to
starting what has become a very successful private practice in
mediation and parenting coordination. Susan regularly appears on York
Region television to discuss the benefits of mediation and parenting
coordination for both the partners, but predominantly, the children.

Susan is also the mother of two grown children and brings a wealth of
professional and personal experience to her practice where she works
with families with compassion, skill, and humour.

Dr. Marty McKay - Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, ABPP

http://www.school-advocate.ca/letters-to-the-editor.php

Dr.
Marty McKay is a clinical psychologist who has 32 years of experience
in working with children and families. She has a Ph.D. in psychology
as well as post-doctoral certification and training in clinical and
forensic psychology. She has consulted with Children's protective
services across southwestern Ontario and currently serves on a
Government Ministry Expert Panel related to the treatment of children
and youth in foster care and residential settings. She has been an
expert witness at all levels of Ontario Court as well as in the United
States in cases involving best interests of children. She has been a
participant in documentaries regarding the rights of children and makes
many media appearances to speak about children's rights. Dr. McKay's
primary concerns include the ways in which many of our social
institutions upon which we depend can be commandeered to alienate a
child from one of his parents, including courts, lawyers, physicians,
psychologists, counsellors, child welfare and law enforcement. She
has provided evidence before the Senate Sub-Committee regarding the
need for family law changes that truly reflect the child's world, and
the need for substantial reform that takes parenting completely out of
the adversarial system. She believes that through knowledge of the
ways in which parental alienation can take place, on the personal,
interpersonal and systemic levels, that parents can be empowered to
ensure that children's full relationship rights are protected and
maintained.

Robert Kominar - Integrity Dispute Resolution Services

Biography in Progress

Bob Finlay, M.A.

Bob Finlay has a Master's Degree in
Psychology, is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada, a
Registered Clinical Counselor in BC, a Certified Drug and Alcohol
Counselor in Canada, a Registered Mediator in BC with the BC Mediator
Roster Society and a Parenting Coordinator with the BC Parenting
Coordination Association. Bob has been mediating since 1990 in the
areas of Custody and Access, Division of Assets, Child Protection and
Workplace where he has worked with over 200 files involving allegations
of Parental Alienation.. He has also conducted Court Ordered Custody
and Access Evaluations since 1990 where he evaluated allegations of
PAS. Bob will be sharing his ideas and practical tips for mediating
with families where PAS is a predominant factor.

Godfrey T.A. Turnbull, CFP, CLU, CDFA, CIMA

www.fa.ml.com/godfrey_turnbull

I
am a Financial Advisor in Global Private Client at the Fifth Avenue
Office in New York. Professional designations include: Certified
Financial Planner certificant, a designation awarded by the Certified
Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.; Chartered Life Underwriter,
a designation awarded by the American College; Certified Divorce
Financial Analyst, a designation awarded by the Institute of Divorce
Financial Analysts; and Certified Investment Management Analyst, a
designation awarded by the Investment Management Consultants
Association.

My approach is built around a process: first, identify goals,
constraints, risk appetite, and time-frames; second, gather data and
transfer assets to Merrill Lynch; third, agree a financial strategy;
and, fourth, execute, monitor and adjust. My team includes product
specialists, for example, trusts. Our services include: discretionary
portfolio management, stock option analysis, concentrated stock hedging
and monetization, retirement planning and management, life insurance
analysis and funding and a full complement of wealth and transfer
services. My international and capital markets experience enable me to
provide a wide array of investment services including helping you
develop financial strategies, retirement planning, and portfolio
development. I also work with clients and their advisers on estate
planning issues or other specific needs.

Academic study was all in the UK, where I earned a BSc (Hons)
from the University of Newcastle and an MBA from the University of
Manchester, and I moved to the US in 1994. I am a member of American
Mensa and the Mind Society, and I actively support the American Cancer
Society.

Brian Ludmer

http://www.ludmerlaw.com

Mr.
Ludmer practises corporate-commercial and securities law with an
emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, corporate
finance, corporate governance, financial disclosure and other areas of
legal and regulatory compliance.

Since he successfully conquered the parental alienation
syndrome dynamic in the context of his own matrimonial proceedings in
2005, he has also conducted a family law practice specializing in cases
involving parental alienation syndrome.

Mr. Ludmer is currently counsel on four such high conflict
cases and has developed a legal, psycho-social and practical strategy
for managing a PAS case.
He consults as well in the area of custody/access assessments for
parents involved in PAS dynamics. His analytical approach to
distinguishing "pathological" estrangement from common "splitting" in
the context of a high conflict divorce has been adopted by many of the
leading mental health practitioners in Canada.

He assists parents in structuring therapeutic interventions to foster reconciliation with estranged parents.

Mr. Ludmer has been speaking on, and consulting for public
companies in, the area of MD&A disclosure, corporate governance,
internal controls, related party transactions, internal investigations
and whistleblowing protocols for over 15 years.

He has been lead counsel on numerous domestic and cross-border
LBO transactions, public and private debt financings, including
convertible debentures, subordinated debt, receivables purchase
arrangements and private label credit card facilities.

Mr. Ludmer has over 20 years of legal and business consulting
experience and operates his own law practice and business and family
law consultancy based in Toronto.

Allegations Of Child Sexual Abuse In Divorce Cases: Responding To Criminal Charges

laryholland@sbcglobal.net (Lary Holland) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:13:28 -0400

Allegations Of Child Sexual Abuse In Divorce Cases: Responding To Criminal Charges

Tawnya Maddox and Chrissy Chrzanowski were hosting a live talk show program on Friday August 29, 2008, known as SplitNTwo, with guest Dr. Reena Sommer. The topic was essentially how to handle false allegations of child sexual abuse in high-conflict divorce and custody cases. These issues have a significant relationship to Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting, where one parent attempts to sour the other parents relationship with their own children. Parental Alienation and using these tactics are also "child abuse."

Dr. Reena Sommer specializes in addressing issues pertaining to false allegations of child sexual abuse and also maintains several web resources like the website: Solutions4PAS

"A major thrust of Dr. Sommer's work is in the area of separation and divorce and assisting divorcing couples explore options in restructuring their lives. In the past, Dr. Sommer conducted court ordered custody evaluations and oversaw courted ordered supervised access. From time to time, Dr. Sommer is asked to provide expert testimony."
"Dr. Sommer is guided by the belief that children should not be denied a relationship with their parents simply because their moms and dads decide to divorce. She views her role as a family life consultant to help men and women develop effective parenting plans that make it possible for them to maintain a positive connection with their children."

I was able to pose a couple of questions, comments, but more importantly discovered an amazing resource for parents that suspect false allegations might come up from the other parent and shared it with those that were participating. I shared the resource below with Chrissy Chrzanowski, Tawnya Maddox, Dr. Amy Baker, Dr. Reena Sommer, and Katrina Daniels, whom I often refer to as the "Parental Alienation Task Force."

THE RESOURCE: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TRUE AND FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN DIVORCE CASES: RESPONDING TO CRIMINAL CHARGES.

The article/study was authored Charles E. Bridges of Bridges, Nichols & Seibel. The link above is a repost of the original content at Delta Bravo, an affiliation of Separated Parenting Access & Resource Center (S.P.A.R.C.)

The introduction sets the tone of the piece:

"This article will focus on those procedures which may lead to false allegations of sexual abuse. By focusing on false allegations, I will be emphasizing what I believe are the weaknesses in the present system of identifying sexual abuse in children. My personal opinion is that the vast majority of sexual abuse allegations are true and that the dedication of the experts that I am critical of in this article has resulted in the conviction of sex offenders who might otherwise have gone free to abuse other children. So much deserved praise has been given these experts that I do not feel the need to say more. However, there has been so little deserved criticism of these experts that I do feel the need to criticize those procedures that can lead to false accusations of sexual abuse. False accusations can be devastating both to the innocently accused and to the child incorrectly diagnosed as a sexual abuse victim."

For anyone that might be facing the possibility of false allegations of child sexual abuse, know first and foremost that it is a very real threat and you could face jail time if the event is not handled correctly. It might not even be a bad idea to print out the report and pass it along or burn a copy of the talk show program "SplitNTwo" with Dr. Reena Sommer to a cd as a gift. Knowledge is power and making a mistake in handling false allegations can be devastating and cause the complete loss of your freedom and/or access to your children. No matter what, hang in there and share the information.

Chrissy Chrzanowski of SplitNTwo: Compelling, Emotional, and True

laryholland@sbcglobal.net (Lary Holland) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:17:47 -0400

Chrissy Chrzanowski of SplitNTwo delivered a compelling, emotional, and true account of parental alienation before the crowds at DC FESTIVAL 2008 and now the entire Internet. Parental alienation is the mental manipulation of children, which can result in destroying a loving and warm relationship they once shared with a parent. Parental Alienation can occur in intact families, but is mostly seen in separated and divorced families. Parental Alienation is Child Abuse.

Chrissy's Speech Can Be Seen on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnFUJeDt8cI

Through the participation of so many dedicated advocates working throughout the United States and coming together in a united front, I have two things to say:

1. Parental Rights should be respected and protected by all.

2. We are united and we are everywhere.

The time for speaking to the choir is over, and all our efforts will be directed at content production, advocate training, and public outreach. We are united and we are everywhere. Respect parental rights or your election will enter our sights.