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The court found the father had abused the mother and that the children’s reluctance to see him was not caused by maternal alienation.
P & Q (Children), Re (Finding of Fact) [2026] EWFC 99 (B) (05 May 2026)
The court found the father committed domestic abuse, including verbal, emotional and controlling conduct, but rejected the father's allegation that the mother alienated the children.
The Family Court refused a father’s application for direct contact, finding persistent physical and coercive abuse and that the children’s refusal of contact was genuine.
A Father v A Mother [2026] EWFC 110 (27 April 2026)
The Family Court found repeated physical abuse and coercive control by the father, rejected alienation allegations, refused direct contact, and made a one-year section 91(14) order.
A Mother (Appeal: Alienating Behaviours: Fair Procedure) [2026] EWHC 783 (Fam) (31 March 2026)
The High Court set aside a finding of parental alienation against a mother for procedural unfairness and inadequate reasoning, while most fabrication findings remained.
Appeal in a family case allowed in part where a finding of parental alienation was set aside for procedural unfairness and inadequate reasoning.
A (A Child) (Fact-finding: domestic abuse and alienating behaviour), Re [2026] EWFC 58 (B) (09 March 2026)
Family Court fact-finding hearing on allegations of abuse and alienation in a child arrangements dispute. The court found neither the father’s abuse allegations nor the mother’s alienation allegations proved.
S v B & Anor [2026] EWFC 86 (B) (26 February 2026)
The court ordered a gradual move from mother-led care to shared care, rejected a fact-finding hearing, allowed therapy to continue outside school time, and imposed a section 91(14) bar.
The High Court ordered the return of a 14-year-old boy to South Africa under the Hague Convention, rejecting grave-risk and child-objection defences.
X (a Minor), Re (Hague Convention 1980, Article 13(b); Article 13(2)) [2026] EWHC 400 (Fam) (24 February 2026)
The High Court ordered X’s summary return to South Africa under the Hague Convention, rejecting Article 13(b) and finding his objections were not authentically his own.
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