Ellen Gay Niermann

Gay was hired as my divorce CFI. Not only did she not do as the judge asked her to determine extremely important and critical information during a nasty custody battle, she lied about her involvement, her due diligence as research and findings as well as charged a completely absurd amount of money f...or a few hours of actual work. Avoid her like the plague, unless you like wasting your time and money.

Do not use her as a CFI. She did me and my ex husbands case and was completely all for him. Everyone, including my attorney and our mediator and even his attorney made comments on how narcissistic and what he good liar he was. She didn't give me a chance at all. She called 1 out of the 5 people I pro...vided and called all 5 of his. She mentioned in the report that my son had his attention more on his sister than mother....well no duh!! My son looks up to his sister and adores her and they are attached at the hip when they're together. She made assumptions without any evidence at all. And she was upset that I would not allow her to see my therapy records. In the end, I won and got what I wanted. Which was 50/50. And everyone else saw right through him. She chooses sides and does not allow a fair judgement.

Short and sweet: This has been the most unethical, sexist, man-hating experience of my life. Clearly her drinking, and biased opinions are more important than these children she's subjecting to abuse in each case she fails to "inspect". Do NOT waste your money. A year into it, and 1 hour total spent ...talking to either side, and no actual investigation after. Hiring her is like letting a sociopathic killer into your home. She'll destroy everything, and not even care.

Ms. Niermann did a wonderful job as a CFI in a case I know quite well. She went out of her way to let an absent father work to regain a relationship with his children. He had voluntarily removed himself from their lives for over two years for no good reason. Ms. Niermann worked hard to give the da...d a chance, but he chose not to work to regain a relationship with the kids. Despite his failure to act, she made recommendations for him and the children to try to address the relationship in counseling. She kept an open mind, and kept the children's best interests in mind. Sometimes a parent makes bad decisions, and then, when the bad decisions are pointed out and action is taken to protect the children, the bad-actor lashes out at the professional pointing out the bad decisions. I found Ms. Niermann to be an excellent CFI, and would highly recommend her to anyone in need of a child-focused, but fair CFI.