PARENTAL ALIENATION: MAIN ASPECTS OF THE FAMILY

Abstract

Parental alienation is a legal institute of Family Law that emerged to identify situations of abuse that occur within the family, because of it is possible to recognize when the child is suffering emotional and even physical abuse by the person who has custody. The Law dealing with the matter was inserted to assist the magistrate in applying sanctions and to recognize the alienator. The concept of parental alienation will be presented in the article, followed by the characteristics, the most usual types of guards, as well as the slanderous denunciation and the implantation of false memories.