My ex-wife has a lot of money. She has a psychiatrist and at least 5 psychologists involved in this case. Although, of course, no psychiatric evaluation was ever done on my son until he was in the wilderness program for a month, and even then his diagnosis came back as Depression NOS and Parent-Child relationship problems, neither of which are recognized as valid diagnosis for residential therapeutic treatment.
Her basis for putting him in Utah is parental alienation syndrome, that I have made her kids hate her. She ignores the fact that her kids didn't start hating her until after she sent her son to Utah. She used PAS as an excuse to send her son to Utah even though he had never committed a crime, was passing in all of his classes in school, had never been violent toward anyone, and was obedient to her reasonable orders. In reality, she sent him to Utah because he does not want to live with her, and in a child custody dispute sending him to Utah is the only way she can keep him from being able to live with me. Otherwise, at 15, he would get to choose the parent he wanted to live with. As it is, she has kept him from having any contact with me or his sister for six months now in spite of two court orders so far to the contrary.
As far as the court putting her in jail, that is unlikely. She is claiming that she is acting in the best interest of the child, and the court has to wait until it has facts to the contrary. The court ordered an independent psychological evaluation of my son in June and it has not yet been performed due to my wife's and the facility's continuances and delays. She has 3 lawyers working for her on this case.
The best that I can hope for is that my son gets brought back home sometime in the next 3 or 4 months. I will have to put up with more of this crap until he turns 18.
