Originally Posted by momo2lilgls
We have a GAL. For many, many years, I was always told to document, document, document, well I document, document, document like it is going out of style. Seriously, I have almost made this a part time job doing all this documenting. I am documenting all teh occurrances my ex does with my kids, not bringing them home at the scheduled time, not wanting them when they are sick because "he cannot afford to get sick," not taking them to school and not letting me know, I can go on. So, here I have two encyclopedia sized binders with DOCUMENTATION in them.
I go an visit the GAL for the first time, hand him the copies of the documentation neatly indexed in manilla file folders and labeled exactly as to what is in them, and he does not want them. He wants DOCUMENTATIONS!!!! Ok, well I can get "documentation" that my ex NEVER takes the girls to the doctor when they are sick, I can get "documentaion" from school that he was spotted dropping my oldest off "under the influence." But, most importantly, I cannot get "documentation" that he is NEVER home.
What good is all this "documenting" that I am doing if the court system, well GAL, does not accept? It is killing me, because I feel I am literally getting sick from re-doing the same thing all the time. How affective is documenting really? Has anyone had to provide documentation and it actually benefited? I cannot see my fingers falling off and killing more trees to print all this documentation, if the system does not take it seriously!
What other options do I have to prove such items, as example, that I mentioned above?
