NBA star Dwyane Wade's lawyers said in court Friday that his ex-wife is manipulative, mentally unstable and occasionally violent. Her lawyer accused Wade of being disengaged, uncommitted and too busy to be a full-time dad. Lawyers for Wade and his former wife, Siohvaughn, leveled the charges in closing arguments Friday after a bitter child custody trial that has dragged on for more than four months. Each parent is seeking sole custody of their two boys, ages 8 and 3. By Dawn Rhodes, Chicago Tribune reporter.
What Judge Goldfarb and Dr. Amabile did in the Wade case, is observe and describe the behavior of a mother bent on keeping two young children away from their father. That alienation clearly led to certain behaviors by the boys that certainly looks like PAS to me. It’s what Dr. Richard Gardner, Dr. Richard Warshak, Dr. Amy Baker and many others have described countless times. By Robert Franklin, Esq
FLORIDA TODAY - OPINION
ReplyDeleteWritten by Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D., Miami
While I applaud columnist Paul Flemming for a sound review of the issues in Saturday’s “Alimony bill will be great — for lawyers,” his bottom-line conclusion is dead wrong.
The proposed state alimony reform bill will reduce litigation, not increase litigation. A bit of history: For years, the divorce vultures (a.k.a., the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar) have conned the Florida Legislature into writing divorce legislation that maximizes litigation and thus maximizes their income. In part, they have accomplished this by maximizing judicial discretion, which in practice means endless conflict and, of course, endless paid litigation.
No matter what they may say, the divorce vultures are interested only in one thing — maximizing their income.
I can irrefutably demonstrate this point with Flemming’s own words: “Thomas Duggar, an attorney in Tallahassee and a member of the Florida Bar’s Family Law Section, said last week at a Tallahassee Bar Association meeting that the section has a $100,000 war chest to sway public opinion against the legislation.”
Do your readers honestly believe they are spending all this money so they will lose income? The divorce vultures get the message in terms of what alimony reform will cost them — and save the children, fathers and mothers of divorce. I regret Mr. Flemming did not do the same.
Full Disclosure: I am an alimony-paying divorced father of two young adult daughters and retired university divorce researcher with multiple research and scholarly publications on this topic.