There was a GAL that was appointed to the court when the case began back in November 2007.  The children's mother has been jailed for domestic violence and a restraining order was put into place.  For the  first 5 months, she has supervised visits.  Since April 2008 the mother has had unsupervised visits.  The last time my friend spoke to the GAL was on April 28, 2008.  At that time he had notified her that the current temporary visitation plan would not work with his day care once school was out.  At that time, the GAL said that they could change it then.  On Thursday, May 15th (almost three weeks later) he e-mailed her with questions regaurding the case and wanted to remind her that they needed to make changes to the plan.  The GAL responded on Sunday May 18th acknowledging his email and said that she was leaving the country for a family vacation and would not return until May 27th.  On the 28th he e-mailed her again...no reponse.  On the 29th he called her and got her voice mail that said that she was attending a conference for the next two days.  Since his original e-mail it has been a little over two weeks.  What can or should he do to get a response since the changes need to be made by next week?  Does he have any legal right?  Can he get a new GAL?  What are the consequenses of getting a new GAL?  Oh, and by they way, he has to represent himself as he has no money and is close to bankrupt over all of this.

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