GAL'S usually file a written report that contains their findings and the basis of their decisions. There are no recorded tapes to transcribe. After their report is written they may destroy their notes.

The objection should have been made before he changed it. If the order was changed less than 30 days ago you can try but I don't know that it is going to get you anywhere. This is a problem if you are acting as your own lawyer.

Usually enlisted persons cannot have any kind of authority over children. Is that not what you are being told?

Your court order governs. Apparently the judge didn't see this as an emergency but I hope you have a court date scheduled.

Contact an attorney practicing family law in the Illinois county in which either your niece or her parent is located. He or she can give you detailed advice based on the exact circumstances of the situation.

Nobody here can give you the answer because we don't know why.

Whenever I have a client with these issues they have to hire me to determine why. That's all I can tell them. Dcfs usually does tell me why but they rarely change their minds.

I cannot give a thoughtful answer as I do not have enough facts. She needs a lawyer who works on DCFS cases to get involved immediately.

Your question is not clear. Your divorce attorney is going to hire your ex wife. For what?

File a response to his petition. Put your concerns in there.

You can talk to the person who filed the case against the mother and ask if he is ok with you talking to his lawyer.

I do not know what MO Law is. IL law requires that you sue where the child is living, so you need to hire a MO lawyer.

You need to have a consultation with a lawyer asap. This forum cannot assist you with something so complicated.

Your sister would need to get temporary guardianship of you. This forum does not provide legal services. She would need a lawyer in the county where you reside.

I don't know what talking parents is. But I don't believe that having child visitation by phone or explaining how yo facilitate it should be an op violation. That provision is more about using a 3rd party to send messages to you like are you willing to try to reconcile, etc.

Look at this statute. It gives you the steps you would have to follow.

750 ILCS 5/609.2

Call legal services in your area. Sometimes they have grants that cover this stuff.

You should contact DCFS and the police, tell them what you are doing and why. Dcfs has forms where your mother could sign guardianship over to another responsible adult until you are 18.

Because all of that evidence probably has not been presented to a judge. It might be because he only exercises his time when he is sober and in a good mood.

Yes. Sometimes a judge wants to make a written finding and send it to everyone in writing, sometimes they want to enable saving face for a party or a witness. Or sometimes they haven't made their mind up yet and are rethinking witness testimony. There can be a number of reasons for a judge... View More

If the statements were made under oath, the persons making same could be charged with perjury. However, if they make same in dcfs reports or some such thing, they are not under oath and many things are a matter of opinion.