Dear Esteemed Seniors and Learned Colleagues, The ongoing evolution of family law jurisprudence increasingly challenges our traditional approach to domestic litigation. While Section 5 of the West Pakistan Family Courts Act, 1964 read with its Schedule vests exclusive jurisdiction over child custody, our foundational substantive law remains the colonial-era Guardians and Wards Act, 1890. Despite […]

Introduction Parental alienation constitutes a multifaceted psychological phenomenon that most commonly arises in the context of high-conflict custody disputes. Initially conceptualized by R. A. Gardner as Parental Alienation Syndrome, the construct describes situations in which a child persistently rejects one parent as a result of intense interparental conflict, combined with systematic indoctrination by the favored