Thank you much. I appreciate your assistance.
This GAL has apparently done no research beside talk to mom and child and read dad's papers. He was providing his opinion as to how everyone should proceed with absolutely no conversations with anyone on dad's side of the world, including dad and I (while I have no legal standing, mom's claim has been that the child says I am also abusive to the child, and that I encourage dad's abuse, so I would think that at least "un" legally, someone should speak to me. There is nothing in the child's medical records to show questioning. The GAL sent a letter to a previous counselor of the child's, but has claimed that the counselor did not respond, and the GAL took no further action. He disappeared for 8 weeks, doesn't bill, ignores communications, and has failed to carry out the court's orders. According to opposing counsel, at times even the child has had a difficult time getting to him.
Dad has been very frustrated and doesn't quite know what to do. It's been a year since his time was interrupted, and while there is no a psych eval which shows that dad has a leaning towards a personality disorder, it also indicates that further counseling and a diagnosis is warranted. The parties are supposed to get recommendations from the psych eval as to who should counsel, but the GAL has not submitted that request because mom's attorney has changed her mind as to whether the end goal should be reconciliation between father and child, and thus refuses to sign a consent order to make it happen. Dad suggested that he go to his previous counselor, and mom's attorney shot that down and made it clear that dad needs to see whoever the psych evaluator deems proper, regardless of insurance coverage or distance. So everything is in limbo, and meantime, he is being kept from his daughter, who according to mom, is even calling the shots as to whether dad should be informed about what is going on in her educational life.
All this in a case where the judge even said, at the ex parte hearing, that he felt that the claims were out of proportion with the facts of the case. In his own words, he was being "spineless", and it is my humble opinion that he has continued in that manner.
Oh well, life goes on.