FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. Who is PASSAGE
A: P.A.S.S.A.G.E. is an acronym for Parental Alienation Syndrome Support Awareness Group and Education
Q. What is PASSAGE?
A: PASSAGE is a non-profit organization created in 2009. The organization assists those who are dealing with the family courts in their conflicts in dealing with custodial issues and Parental Alienation.
Q. Where is PASSAGE?
A: PASSAGE is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Though PASSAGE is currently only located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Parental Alienation exists where ever there is a child and child custody issues regardless if the parents are single, married or divorced. PASSAGE is looking to expand into other areas and states to assist those involved in custodial conflicts.
Q. When does PASSAGE meet?
A: PASSAGE support group will be forming shortly.
Q. Why PASSAGE?
A: PASSAGE is an advocacy group that assists non-custodial parents and children who are battling custody issues.
Q. What can PASSAGE do for me?
A: At PASSAGE we have paralegals who can assist you in preparing and filing motions to establish paternity and to enforce your court ordered visitations. We also have referrals to un-bundled and bundled attorneys.
PASSAGE is also currently working on a manual "Best Interest of the Child" for the non-custodial parent. The manual covers your parental rights and visitation as well as hiring/firing an attorney and filing complaints against not only your attorney but the judge as well.
In many cases the judge will assign your case to a psychologist also known as a parenting coordinator. Often the parenting coordinator is no better than the judge or attorneys. For that reason you will be able to find information on contacting the Board of Psychological Examiners to file a complaint against the therapist or parenting coordinator if the need should arise.
Q. Whats the difference between Bundled and Un-bundled Attorneys?
A: Bundled Attorneys are those who have there own paralegal who prepare and file your motions as well as represent you in court. Generally the fees to retain an attorney can run from twenty-five-hundred to three thousand dollars. Un-bundled Attorneys are those who just represent you in court for the day, while your motions can be prepared and filed by independent paralegals. The fees for un-bundled attorneys are very reasonable and affordable running generally around five-hundred to a thousand dollars depending on the severity of your case.
Q. What is Parental Alienation?
A: Parental alienation is a social dynamic, generally occurring due to divorce or separation, when a child expresses unjustified hatred or unreasonably strong dislike of one parent, making access by the rejected parent difficult or impossible. These feelings may be influenced by negative comments by the other parent and by the characteristics, such as lack of empathy and warmth, of the rejected parent.
From Parental Alienation comes Parental Alienation Syndrome. "Syndrome" or "behavior" perpetrated by the child towards the "targeted parent"
Q. Does Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome Exist?
A: Any one who has had to fight their ex's just to see their child and to defend against allegation and accusations knows that Parental Alienation in fact does exist. Many learned professionals will try to tell you that Parental Alienation does not exist, that it is simply parents bickering and blaming each other.
Q. Why the denial of the existence of Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome?
A: The sad and shocking truth about Parental Alienation is that its the best tool that attorneys have to win custody for their clients. Attorneys are full aware that all they have to do is claim abuse and neglect by the "targeted parent". They know that the judge will have to "err on the side of caution" for the child and will withhold or suspend all visitations and contact with the accused parent.
In family court perjury laws do not apply unless it is an evidentiary hearing or trial. Therefore once it is discovered that the allegations and accusations were false, the judge refuses to hold the accusing party in contempt. The allegations and accusations continue until the "targeted parent" gives up.
It is believed that because attorneys pay campaign contributions or what some feel are "bribes", attorneys are allowed to continue to allege and accuse the "targeted parent". Judges refuse to see children in the court room and they separate themselves from the situation to not be held morally accountable for their actions regardless how unethical if not illegal, it is. They feel that if they don't have to see the child than there are no conscience bonds to the child.
