Unhandled Exception

Unhandled Exception: Parental Alienation – When Abuse Doesn’t Fit the Framework is Nick Yeoman’s first book, written as both a memoir and a field manual. It examines parental alienation and abuse through patterns of behavior, applied psychology, and systemic failure within British Columbia’s Family Court system. The book documents how extreme situations escalate, how false allegations derail lives, and how trauma interacts with institutions designed to protect families, but often fail when cases fall outside standard frameworks.

Shortly after the conception of his second child, Nick’s home life deteriorated into a level of chaos that defied explanation. To make sense of it, he began recording everything: emails, timelines, legal filings, police reports, medical records, communications, and behavioral patterns. Over the years, this grew into gigabytes of material: not emotion, but evidence.

Originally intended for release upon his daughters 18th birthday, the project accelerated after the 2025 Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, which explored Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA). While the documentary shocked audiences, Nick recognized something unsettling: his lived experience was more complex, more sustained, and far less contained. If the public found that story disturbing, they have yet to see what happens when systems repeatedly fail the same family.