S1:E43 – Parental Alienation & Family Court: Family Law Attorney Kevin Hickey on How to Win Custody, Divorcing a Narcissist & Healing After Divorce

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S1:E43 – Parental Alienation & Family Court: Family Law Attorney Kevin Hickey on How to Win Custody, Divorcing a Narcissist & Healing After Divorce

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There is no pain in divorce quite like the slow, deliberate erasure of a parent from a child's life. It has a name — parental alienation — and it is not just bad co-parenting. It is a strategy. And the most dangerous thing you can do when it is being used against you is wait, hope, and trust that the legal system will notice on its own. It won't. Not unless you know exactly what to document, when to act, and how to make a judge understand — fast — what is being systematically done to your family. Becky Sampson sits down with Kevin Hickey — divorce and child custody attorney based in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with 26 years in the trenches and 15 years of specialized parental alienation practice — for one of the most strategically critical conversations in the Divorcing Strong series. Over the course of his career, Kevin has handled high-conflict custody cases involving parental alienation across 13 different states, representing the targeted parent in some of the most emotionally taxing and legally complex family court battles imaginable. What sets Kevin apart is not just his case history — it is his philosophy. He does not wait for the damage to become undeniable. He believes in early intervention: identifying the patterns early, responding in a way that protects the child immediately, and building a case that gives a judge something specific and objective to act on before the alienation has time to take root. Because in parental alienation cases, Kevin will tell you plainly — patience is not a virtue. It is a liability. If your child is pulling away, repeating phrases that sound exactly like your ex, or if you are being kept off school forms, hidden from appointments, and lied to about extracurricular activities — this episode is the strategy session you did not know you needed. 🎯 In This Episode, You'll Learn: How an area of law chose Kevin — and why parental alienation became personal — Kevin's candid account of coming out of law school with no intention of becoming a divorce attorney, taking a couple of high-profile divorces early in his career, and suddenly being one — then, 15 years into his practice, starting to encounter cases where one parent was systematically driving a wedge between the other and their children, feeling "lost as to how to fight these cases" especially when the alienating parent had narcissistic tendencies, and making the decision that this could not keep happening — that there had to be a way to fight back and stop itWhat parental alienation actually is — the full definition — the complete behavioral pattern that constitutes parental alienation: not a single incident, not a bad mood, but a consistent, pattern-based campaign by one parent (the alienating parent) to drive a wedge between the other (the target parent) and their children — and why the distinction between "bad co-parenting" and "parental alienation" matters legally, emotionally, and strategicallyThe gatekeeping playbook — what it looks like in practice — the specific, documented tactics Kevin sees most frequently: being kept off school enrollment forms and medical records, not being told when appointments are scheduled or who the doctor is, being given the wrong time for extracurricular activities ("they told you 3:00 , it was at 1:00 , you show up and it's already over"), negative comments about you to the children, and a litany of smaller, individually deniable actions that, taken together, form an unmistakable patternThe early warning signs in your children — how to recognize when alienation has already begun: behavioral changes in your child, a sudden emotional distance that wasn't there before, and — the most chilling signal — your child spontaneously using phrasing, wording, or talking points that could only have come from your ex; why recognizing these signs early is not paranoia but pattern recognition, and why acting on them immediately is your most powerful protective moveWhy early intervention is everything — and what it looks like — Kevin's clearest strategic directive: the moment you suspect alienation, you cannot wait; what an attorney can do in the earliest stages (making sure you have maximum time with your children, alerting opposing counsel explicitly about what their client is doing, filing for a temporary or emergency hearing so the judge gets up to speed immediately) and why every week of delay is a week the other parent's narrative is solidifying unopposedThe "Kevin calendar" — your single most powerful legal weapon — the documentation method Kevin gives every client from day one: get a physical calendar, call it your case calendar, and on the day something happens, write it down — screenshot of a text, a note from the parenting app, a missed appointment, a wrong time given for a baseball game; why the resistance to documentation ("I don't want to have to do that") is exactly the resistance the alienating parent is counting on, and why the ...

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