Gina Beth Weitzenkorn

Gina Weitzenkorn was assigned as the CFI in my custody dispute 3 and a half years ago. Leading up to my court action with my ex, I knew it was going to be a lot of “he said, she said” so I documented our communications for months. My ex denies her own actions and falsely accuses others, but I figured... having everything in writing would differentiate between who was lying and who was telling the truth. In nice terms, my ex has what some call a high conflict personality. In my documentation I tried to make the dynamic and behavioral patterns as clear as possible for the evaluator. I put contradictory statements from my ex side by side to show how she lied and changed her stories. I included records of my ex withholding or threatening to withhold my daughter from me if I didn’t do what she wanted (favors, or giving her stuff or money, etc). There were pages of harassing messages and repeated harassing calls (up to 100+ unwanted calls in a day) from my ex. Gina seemingly did almost no work on our case for the first couple months until she was pressed for the report. When she issued the report it was like a high schooler’s last minute effort to turn in an assignment to not get an F. She got minor factual information like names and dates wrong, made superficial opinion remarks that I didn’t think could even be part of a court report, and fueled my ex’s distorted narrative (which was contradicted by stacks of documentation). At the time I wondered if I was being retaliated against for giving Gina too much stuff to read. Along with the communication records, my friends’ and family’s character witness statements were ignored. My ex’s false accusations were portrayed as facts in the report, with no documentation to back them up, and no fact checking done. Example: my ex claimed I threatened to have her deported, which is completely false. There’s nothing to back that claim up, but Gina wrote “Father threatened to have Mother deported.” She never asked me if that was true, she just took my ex’s lie at face value and put it in the report. Gina’s report made me out to be the villain for reporting my ex for busting into my apartment without permission and attacking me while I was holding our infant daughter on my hip. The fact that I reported that incident put an end to a pattern of negative behavior and saved my daughter from witnessing more domestic violence. In criminal court my ex took a plea deal for DV Harassment with two years of probation with DV classes and parenting classes; but Gina basically excused my ex’s behavior and accused me of reporting the incident to gain an advantage in the domestic case. From what I can tell, she didn’t review the evidence from the criminal case and just based her opinion on what we both said about the incident. Apparently she liked my ex’s victim sob story better. Unfortunately, my ex and her family law attorney took Gina’s opinion and ran with it, and have been trying to use it against me in their motions ever since. Gina did my family a great disservice with her sloppy, biased, conjecture-based CFI report. Had we gotten a diligent and discerning CFI, I believe I would’ve had more support from the court in protecting my daughter from my ex’s parental conflict from the start. Gina should not be called an Investigator. If there were more accountability and follow up built into the family court system, I don’t think Gina would still be a CFI. In the best case scenario, Gina is just very negligent in her CFI work. If your family’s future is on the line, I advise you not to agree to have Gina as a CFI in your case. She definitely did more harm than good in mine.

Gina was assigned to our case by the court. To sum up what happened, she did as little work as possible, ignored calls and emails, and even based her report off of her opinion from the stories she heard from my ex instead of doing her job. She ignored emotional and physical abuse that the kids showed... and instead said it was normal kid behavior that caused their constant bruises, scratches, black eyes, busted lips, etc. Everything in the report that made me sound like the "bad parent" she tried to portray me as could be disproved by simply looking at the parent records, police reports, recordings, texts, and anything else she should have taken the time to look over. Although she admitted in court this was all her opinion and it was not taken into account for our case, the issues it's caused outside of court are worse than ever before. Her lack of effort in doing her job affects people and children's lives. If you have a choice, don't go with her.

Ms. Weitzenkorn was appointed as our CFI during the divorce process for our child by the court. Do not agree/hire her as your CFI if the other party is a Narcissist and/or is an abusive person(emotionally, verbally, physically or mentally). She is not able to see thru the charm and does not care no...r see abuse. She still granted joint decision making and even recommended exchanges taking place at the parents home, after hearing about the abuse that took place and reviewing my exes long extensive criminal history that also included violence. The timing of her visits to each parents home were also not well thought out by her which completely defeated the purpose as to why a CFI was appointed in the first place. Bottom line- if you are a victim of abuse whether its overt or covert and are going thru a custody battle, find a CFI that is familiar with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and/or is sympathetic about abuse and is looking out for YOUR best interest and the CHILDS.