How Parental Alienation Syndrome Brainwashes the Child

This is a video that was created by Les Linet, M.D. from Princeton, NJ and I thought it did a good job of describing things that I see when dealing with cases in parental alienation. I would only preface this video by saying that in my experience the alienating parent can be either the Mother or Father. This video uses examples that rely on the Mother being the alienating parent, and by posting this video I do not wish to suggest that only Mother's alienate their children. I have been involved in cases where Father's have attempted to alienate their children from the children's Mother as well.

Checklist of Financial Documents for Divorce

One thing that remains true for (almost) all of my Massachusetts divorce clients is that they prefer when I give them the option to retrieve documents as I prepare their case file. When you, as the client, obtain documents to assist your divorce attorney in preparing your file it saves time and money. By avoiding the need of having your divorce attorney send out deposition subpoena's and other discovery requests for items that you, as the client and subject individual could more easily obtain, you will save yourself some billable hours in the long run. Of course there will be times when the documents you provide to your divorce attorney are not sufficient should your case proceed to trial, but evidentiary issues aside, most of my clients ask "what can I get for you?" at one time or another.

After the break I have included a lengthy checklist of documents that I frequently ask for as financial disclosures. If you're preparing, or going through, a divorce in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts these are typically the documents that your divorce attorney is going to be most interested in. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and for the most part I use this list internally only, which means that much of it won't apply. However, in an effort to get as much information "out there" as possible, after the jump you will find my checklist for financial disclosures.