October 30, 2021 – Parental Alienation & Child’s Wishes

“When there is a finding of parental alienation, little weight should be given to the child’s wishes.  For example, in Pettenuzzo, at para. 55, Whalen J. stated “if I accept that there has been parental alienation in this case, as I do, then the child’s preferences are not her own, but are those of her mother or other maternal family as she has been convinced.”

This concept is consistently applied in parental alienation jurisprudence.”

Malhotra v. Henhoeffer, 2018 ONSC 6472 (CanLII) at 146-147