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What do you do if you receive custody of your alienated child? Where do you go? How do you begin rebuilding a severely compromised relationship?

DadsDivorce learned about The Rachel House and The Rachel Foundation at the recent Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome.

DadsDivorce editor, Rick Ortiz, discusses the hard work of recovering from PAS with Pamela Stuart Mills-Hoch, one of the founders of The Rachel House. At the Rachel House children are reunited in a "Home environment" where healing can begin again. Help and is available and hope is possible!

Watch the video after the jump!

Question:

My wife and I are about to file for a divorce, but I would also like to file for joint legal and physical custody. My wife has stated that I am abusive, but I'm not. There has never been a police report filed, but she says she will state this anyway. I'm a great father, having always supported my kids emotionally and financially.

My question is: Can her accusations prevent me from getting joint custody?  Also, since she has two DUI’s within the last 12 years, and as a result a suspended license on her record, will this help my case? How should I go about preparing to bring up her history if I need to?

DadsDivorce.com editor, Rick Ortiz speaks with Joe Goldberg, Principal of Goldberg & Associates, a Parental Alienation Consulting firm, about this year's Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome. 

The dates for the conference are October 17th and 18th at the University of Toronto.  Watch the video and learn more about the difficulties that PAS poses in the family court system, how to detect PAS, why you need a PAS expert to guide you through the process, and how to learn more about this form of child abuse.

 Question:

I am in the middle of a custody battle with my ex-wife. We divorced nearly 6 years ago. This past April my daughter who is nearly 6 was sexually abused my her older half brother, my ex-wife's oldest child. CPS got involved in the case and I took my ex-wife back to court for custody of our two children (6 and 10).

During all of this I found out that there was a CPS case last year on my kids being abused at the hands of their mom and grandma. I did not know about this even though CPS is claiming that they spoke to me. I have always been worried about my kids. My lawyer said that the CPS case last year is not proof that the kids are in danger so he is not going to bring it up in court when we go back for the final court hearing in August.

My attorney told me that with my being an Over the Road truck driver that the court will not give custody of the children to me. I am looking for a job off the road, but if I change jobs now it will affect my ability to pay child support and the insurance.  This would put me in contempt when we go back to court. My new wife and I will be having a home study done on ourselves and the kids this July. Do you think the CPS papers should be brought up? I would really like to change lawyers but I have already payed this lawyer $3,500. He seems to think my chances are nil. What do you think?  Am I missing some options?