Handling Family Law Cases Involving Antisocial High Conflict People
Sociopaths fool professionals on a regular basis, including in family law cases. This 2-hour course teaches you to identify, understand, and manage antisocial high-conflict people: the drive to dominate, the skilled lying and conning, the false allegations, and the strategies for handling them as clients or opposing parties.
Your instructor
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, High Conflict Institute
500,000+
professionals trained worldwide
The con works on professionals too.
A drive to dominate others, disregard for the law, lack of remorse, and skilled deception: antisocial personalities are the con artists of divorce, and they regularly fool the professionals on their cases. Understanding why people fall in love with them, why professionals get conned, and how their false allegations work is the first half of managing them. The second half is strategy: investigation, court presentation, negotiation, and protecting yourself when necessary.
Outcomes you'll bring back from Antisocial Personalities in Family Law.
- Understand the dynamics of antisocial personality disorder in family law.
- Recognize why professionals are easily conned, and harden your practice against it.
- Handle the false allegations sociopaths frequently make against clients and professionals.
- Manage clients with antisocial traits.
- Deal with a sociopathic opposing party: investigation, negotiation, and mediation.
- Present an antisocial case in family court, and protect yourself when necessary.
Who Antisocial Personalities in Family Law is built for.
Attorneys
Investigation and presentation strategy for cases built on deception.
Counselors & Therapists
Recognize conning dynamics in clients and their former partners.
Judges
The patterns behind polished courtroom performances and false allegations.
Parenting Coordinators
Manage domination tactics in post-decree co-parenting.
Mediators
Protective structure for negotiating with a party who cons.
GALs & Visitation Supervisors
What abusive and deceptive patterns mean for children's safety.
How Antisocial Personalities in Family Law is delivered.
Two hours on-demand in two parts: Part 1, understanding antisocial dynamics. Part 2, managing them in and out of court, with case examples throughout.
- 2-hour video course — Dynamics, false allegations, and management strategies with case examples.
- PowerPoint PDF — Downloadable slides to keep as a reference.
- Certificate of Completion — 2 hours documented.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute. He pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP) and is an international expert on managing disputes involving people with high-conflict personalities. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 books, manuals, and workbooks, co-host of the podcast It's All Your Fault!, and writes a Psychology Today blog with millions of views.
Before co-founding HCI, Bill was the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center for 15 years, a Certified Family Law Specialist lawyer representing clients in family court for 15 years, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist with twelve years of experience. He has served on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, taught as a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia, and trained professionals in over 35 U.S. states and 13 countries.
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