The Architecture of Coercive Control: Systemic Abuse in High-Conflict Domestic Relations Proceedings - A Case Study in Neurodivergent Targeting, Legal Weaponization, and Institutional Failure

This case study examines the mechanisms of coercive control in high-conflict domestic relations proceedings where the targeted individual is neurodivergent and medically complex. The analysis integrates psychoanalytic theory (Identification with the Aggressor, repetition compulsion), the Legal Abuse Scale (Gutowski & Goodman, 2022), the Double Empathy Problem from autism research, forensic financial analysis of a forced federal retirement account liquidation, documented institutional failures within the Brunswick Judicial Circuit (Georgia), and constitutional violations under ADA Title II. Procedural anomalies including inchoate judgments, post-discharge consent orders, and jurisdictional defects are documented against controlling Georgia appellate precedent. All parties identified by role only; case details redacted. Published as First Amendment commentary.