When a parent and child are estranged or separated because of a divisive divorce or custody fights, allegations of abuse, parental alienation, or the return to the home of a child who’d been removed, ...

Abbey O’Brien, 18, went to the Texas Capitol in May to publicly support lawmakers’ attempt to restrict a type of family therapy a court ordered her to participate in after her parents’ divorce. Her ...

A judge in a child custody matter allowed the forced and unannounced removal of children from their custodial mother so they could enter a “reunification” program with the estranged father. The Wall ...

From the steps of the Colorado Supreme Court building, Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins projected into a microphone, hoping the judges statewide would hear her plea. “These women here — and countless women ...

A Colorado mother avoided further time in jail after her lawyer argued that the court-ordered reunification therapy the mother opposes between her youngest sons and her criminally charged ex-husband ...

Tiffanie O'Brien, right, and her daughter, Abbey, in their neighbors home near Lake Austin on Aug. 8, 2025. Both women testified in favor of banning reunification therapy, a form of court-ordered ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...