Does anyone have experience with actually taking their ex to court for parental alienation? I left my ex husband 8 years ago. Of those 8 years, the first 2 I had an OFP against him and he could not have contact with me or the kids (we have 2 boys, currently ages 14 and 10). Then for 4 years he saw them sporadically, getting less and less often as the years went by. Then he didn’t see them from Christmas 2015 till 2 weeks ago. He also is over $20k behind in child support. He has been making payments but not in full and shorted me $125 for this month.

Out of no where he decided he wanted to use his legal right to weekend visitation. So he saw them 2 weeks ago for the weekend and the. This past weekend. And it’s been causing major problems.

During the last visit he bought the kids a Nintendo switch, which they proceeded to fight over and they both had some attitude issues. Then the last week things were fine. Now they just got back from a weekend with him and all of a sudden my kids are telling me I should be nicer to him, that I should be asking him nicely for the child support he owes and then rattled off all the excuses he gave them to why he isn’t able to pay. Then I find out he’s telling them he doesn’t understand why I’d get pregnant if I’m so broke and I found out he told them that I’d cheated on him! And although true, it’s not appropriate to tell them and he conveniently left out the part where he was abusive to me and on drugs and put us in tons of debt and was never home because he was always getting drunk and high with his friends!

My 14 yo didn’t really want to talk about any of it, but my 10 yo was really upset about everything and seemed insistent that everything was my fault and when I tried to explain his dad wasn’t telling the whole truth and was even lying in some cases he asked why he should believe me!

Anyone else deal with anything like this? Does anyone think this is enough for parental alienation? I would really just like to get his rights terminated.