contractor self employed he became involved with jennifer greer who is the mother of the child in this case because she was going through a custody battle with her first child carro i clamped down very sorry for jennifer in the conditions in which they're older he rescued her as he would so many times during the course of their relationship together at the time she was living a rather  with no running water no heat animal feces on the floor and trash in the house this was the same in marion illinois from which her pending felony charges which arise from animal cruelty when jennifer became pregnant with alex who was born on march sixteenth two thousand and seven there was led to believe that he did was the father however he had sufficient experience with jennifer based on his relationship with her by this time to recognize that she wasn't particularly truthful and so easy to be opportunity shortly after the child was born to have a him except for the sixteen times that she moved since alex is birth and as of the trial date jennifer greer has a mental health history and she has threatened to kill herself in front of the trial on one occasion and she had made a rather recent threat to her mother on the telephone when she said what would happen to alex if i blew my brains out she had also made gra suicide to her father but these were mostly in the context of trying to get him to pay money for support nonetheless she admitted she was going to counseling and as she put it she wanted to stay the women's shelter which was her home at the time of this hearing she was going to stay there until such time as she gets stable she's thirty eight years of age she has absolutely no employment history for the toys for the child she's barely visiting as i pointed out at the turn of the hearings she was a women's shelter resident she got there when she threatened to kill herself to leave alex at the police station victor e were no family no friends who testified on her bank account and while she was at the shelter her witnesses conceded that she was provided the food and all the necessities of living and under their  that this man had never physically mentally or any way shape or form abused any child or any woman this is the same gender or i think you should remember  obviously the mother was the one that filed the motion the judge asked to the mother it made a good argument cited to the case of our ally and explain to the judge that never going to three hearing was agreed with that and i said that i did nevertheless the judge denied the motion without a hearing and we all assume that we were having a hearing on the guardianship petition and that was favorable to us doing a variance ship case and under the probate act you're also supposed to consider the best interest of the child and i felt like we were really for close on this the guardian ad litem with because i don't think the trial work really friendly to me his decision and he's giving a standing fine but then he didn't focus on the right factors when he reached that determination because he wasn't he wasn't looking at standing because that's what he told us we were doing regular guardianship and yet at the same time we didn't really look at best interest factors either so i think everyone really suffered under that particular ruling was trying to i don't think it's necessarily a higher standard because i think that ultimately it's still by a preponderance of the evidence least that seems to be what really is that we have would say but again there's there's very little got stand now let's go to trial and then the end of the trial he said you lose because you didn't prove what you got to prove or stand back and instead of u sing a standard you know you failed to prove you're entitled to guardianship or whatever in the language that was used was the standing like i have that right yes so what about that i mean were you in trial oh well when was your client in trial was there a trial in the guardianship or was it was judge gray's actually having a hearing on standing orders or reading the record that would indicate that after hearing the evidence he changed his mind on the issue it is clear that the hearing that did take place was not limited in its focus on anyway thirteen witnesses testifying about the mother abilities the parenting abilities credibility he didn't make several comments about jennifer's credibility and he did i think even before he rules state basically that he was going to ignore anything that her father  because he found that it was so incredibly by against her but other than that he made no assessment of the witnesses credibility the evidence that was presented by the mother school in these times where she admitted that she owed as you money and as i you as we all know was under great physical restraint right now she had very very plans about where she was going to live she stated that she had found rental houses that you know said she didn't need money i mean her her plans for the future as to how she could take care of her child were and we won't know the only other thing i would call your attention to make it right i have never seen a more elegant brief but i think that the guardian