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When your child resists court-ordered visitation

My 11-year-old son has started refusing to go to his mother's house and having panic attacks when it is time to leave but the court order says he has to go.

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Legal obligations and emotional reality sometimes conflict so severely that enforcing one requires violating the other.

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