My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Indiana
In a paternity cause. There are two children and Father is trying to get custody of his son and grandmother is trying to get custody of the other boy. Each have different lawyers, mother has one for a total of three lawyers. The lawyers have deceided that an appointment of a mediator to attempt to resolve the outstanding issues concerning all parties involved. They have or hope to cancel a court date where the grandmother was suppose to testify. The lawyers have selected a mediator.
My son and the grandmother was not asked if they wanted to do this, they was not told about the cost, they do not know if they can even afford this, the lawyers just or are trying to do it.
I thought the lawyer is suppose to ask you if you wanted to do this? If you had the money to pay for it. This really helps the mother because now the court will not hear the grandmother, also the above did not happen in court so the grandmother and my son could not say no or ask questions.
So is it legal what the lawyers did and if so how can they commit you to paying bills that you had no say in?
If this goes thru how do we address the issue? Not talking to the mediator and trying to force it back into court to tell the judge what happened?
Oh yes, the lawyers said in a letter this was in the best interest of the children, the way I see it, we are paying the lawyers to represent us, not the children, thats the courts place.

