I was abused badly in childhood, especially by my father, and he left as I was entering my teens. The judge forced me into a therapy evaluation that was utter nonsense and that counselor both lied to me and then lied about me to the judge. The judge then pressured me to get my dad to go back to church because that would obviously solve everything and is of course always the kid’s job /s. I’m actually still religious and happily so, but that judge was utterly screwed up in his attitudes. The judge still tried to force me to go on visitation, in spite of my telling him that I was afraid for my safety and my life (with good reason because my father had tried to kill me at least 2 or 3 times with some other instances that I suspect were attempts on my/my mother’s life, but I have less objective proof). Then after me refusing to go on visitation, including “running away” to a friend’s house out of town a few times (my mom did know where I was, but I made all the arrangements) to avoid going and getting beaten or screamed at for hours or days. The courts are seriously fouled up, especially in divorce cases. They don’t want to listen to the victims at all. Frankly counseling isn’t much better in my experience and I’m completely done with the entire profession because it attracts way too many dangerous narcissists and does nothing to prevent them from doing more damage to patients.