Ellen Gay Niermann

Gay Niermann was our PCDM for 2 years. During those two years, she made decisions that put the emotional and phyical well-being of a child at risk. She does not make decisions based on a child's best interest and ignores concerns, refusing to investigate prior to making a decision. She never met t...he child for whom she was making decisions. She does not seem to have a firm grasp on family law. I would never recommend her in any family law setting whether CFI work or PCDM. She is lazy, always on vacation and never fully engaged in her work in order to protect children. In one instance, she made a decision in which she was supposed to follow up with the Courts within 20 day and did not. I would strongly encourage you to find another CFI/PCDM.

Gay claimed to be an expert in parental alienation syndrome. This could not be further from the truth. She not only was ineffective, but when new PAS literature and research was published, she refused to read it claiming " she already knew everything about PAS". She failed to enforce my parenting ...time with my children. She continued to decrease my parenting time until it was entirely eliminated, despite being a loving, supportive and fully capable parent. The result is alarming. I have not spent time with my son for 7.5 years. I have spent only 10 hours with my daughter in the last five years. Who knows if and when we will ever be reunited as a family.