The sole custodial rights and responsibilities of a parent or the primary guardianship of a parent should be removed on a conditional and limited basis when reasonable and probable evidence would support the following to be true:
• The HAP parent has coached, attempted to coach or has used threats, intimidation or terror to make the child to provide false or misleading information to authorities.
• The HAP parent has physically harmed the child or has failed to take adequate steps to protect the child from being physically abused by others while under his/her care.
• The HAP parent has brazenly denied the other parent’s access to the child in violation to a valid court Order or signed agreement.
• The HAP parent has threatened the child with the use of physical force beyond that considered reasonable as parental discipline.
• The HAP parent has threatened or is planning to kidnap or to take the child out of the country, province or state against the reasonable wishes of the other parent or against the reasonable wishes of the child.
• Reasonable evidence would indicate that the HAP parent may be preparing to relocate the child without the consent of the other parent and without evaluating all of the factors that would be considered in the best interest of the child under any of the following situations:
a) Relocation of the child would require the parents to move legal matters to a new court jurisdiction.
b) Relocation of the child would require that the child attend school in another school district.
c) Relocation of the child would require that the parents drive more than an additional 30 minutes combined by automobile in order to physically exchange the child between one residence and the other.
• The child is showing the early signs of parental alienation syndrome.
• The child has inflicting injuries upon himself/herself or has attempted injury to himself/herself and the influence of the HAP parents is suspected to be the cause of the child’s self destructive behaviour.
• The child is expressing a fear for his/her physical or emotional safety while in the care of the HAP parent.
• The HAP parent has exposed the child to dangerous or highly undesirable environment such as drugs, alcohol, criminal activity or domestic violence in the home and the potential exists for this environment to continue.
• The child is expressing a strong desire to not live under the primary control of a parent and where reasonable evidence would suggest that the parent who the child does not want to live under the control of is engaging in HAP behaviours and/or other poor parenting practices and other forms of child maltreatment.
• The child is expressing a strong desire to live with the parent considered to be the non HAP parent and current reasonable evidence would support this to be in the child’s best interest.
Understanding and effectively dealing with Hostile-Aggressive Parenting (HAP) Published by Family Conflict Resolution Services
• The HAP parent has coached, attempted to coach or has used threats, intimidation or terror to make the child to provide false or misleading information to authorities.
• The HAP parent has physically harmed the child or has failed to take adequate steps to protect the child from being physically abused by others while under his/her care.
• The HAP parent has brazenly denied the other parent’s access to the child in violation to a valid court Order or signed agreement.
• The HAP parent has threatened the child with the use of physical force beyond that considered reasonable as parental discipline.
• The HAP parent has threatened or is planning to kidnap or to take the child out of the country, province or state against the reasonable wishes of the other parent or against the reasonable wishes of the child.
• Reasonable evidence would indicate that the HAP parent may be preparing to relocate the child without the consent of the other parent and without evaluating all of the factors that would be considered in the best interest of the child under any of the following situations:
a) Relocation of the child would require the parents to move legal matters to a new court jurisdiction.
b) Relocation of the child would require that the child attend school in another school district.
c) Relocation of the child would require that the parents drive more than an additional 30 minutes combined by automobile in order to physically exchange the child between one residence and the other.
• The child is showing the early signs of parental alienation syndrome.
• The child has inflicting injuries upon himself/herself or has attempted injury to himself/herself and the influence of the HAP parents is suspected to be the cause of the child’s self destructive behaviour.
• The child is expressing a fear for his/her physical or emotional safety while in the care of the HAP parent.
• The HAP parent has exposed the child to dangerous or highly undesirable environment such as drugs, alcohol, criminal activity or domestic violence in the home and the potential exists for this environment to continue.
• The child is expressing a strong desire to not live under the primary control of a parent and where reasonable evidence would suggest that the parent who the child does not want to live under the control of is engaging in HAP behaviours and/or other poor parenting practices and other forms of child maltreatment.
• The child is expressing a strong desire to live with the parent considered to be the non HAP parent and current reasonable evidence would support this to be in the child’s best interest.
Understanding and effectively dealing with Hostile-Aggressive Parenting (HAP) Published by Family Conflict Resolution Services
