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.

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.

I had theunfortunate experience of having Ms. Weitzenkorn assigned as a Child Field Investigator to my custody case. Although I respect her knowledge for the law and would recommend her to anyone seeking a top-notch and aggressive divorce attorney, she does not display the knowledge, wisdom, intelle...ct and compassion to serve as a Child Field Investigator and relies solely upon her opinions and conjecture. She is biased toward one party, typically the “targeted parent” while showering the “alienating parent” with accolades. My daughter was 14 years old when this unfortunate circumstance transpired. She was in 9th grade and her grades dropped from a 4.0 GPA to a 1.6. There was not one single mention made in Ms. Weitzenkorn’s report about my daughter’s education but rather shallow statements i.e.,: “father takes daughter skiing”, “father had to be spoken to about the benefits of cooking at home rather than taking daughter to bars ..” Her $ 2000 reports are perfunctory and superficial and frankly, I was shocked by the lack of substance and poor grammar. The court wanted to appoint Ms. Weitzenkorn as our parenting coordinator. My daughter will be off to college in two years and that is exactly how long the parenting coordinator would be a part of our lives. I would rather go to jail than sign an agreement or retain the services of a stranger who clearly lacks to intellectual acumen required to render decisions on behalf of my daughter’s future. She does have one recurring theme throughout her assignment(s) --quick turnaround for purposes of profit.