Quote from: MixedBag on Feb 26, 2011, 05:27:36 AM
GAL -- guardian ad litem an individual appointed by the court to look out for the children's interest in this process.
EVERYONE in the process is always interested in settling out of court -- except attorney's who may be egging you on to go to court, but ethically, if they can get you to agree to an agreement, that's on their mind too somewhere.
Thanks. There is no GAL.
As for settling out of court, We've tried to defuse this at several points and have made two VERY reasonable ofers at out of court resolution but Im dealing with someone who has been assured by her counsel that as the mother she has nothing to worry about, that having made allegations of emotional abuse, even if disproven, will likely be given creedence with a better safe than sorry notion, and that she has 'nothing to lose' that the 'worst that will happen is that things stay 50/50'. At the moment, it appears all to likely to be the case.
I can tell you its going to be painful to have to dip into what Ive sved for college to fight this.