We are going threw a very similar situation with my daughters attorney for her custody case with her Ex. The attorney was great at the beginning but now that we are at the end of this, year and a half long battle, the attorney has turned out to be pretty useless. For us that this point it is really to late to change to a different attorney... after all we would have to financially afford another high dollar retainer fee and she has already paid this current attorney well over $6,000 ... All I can do at this point is pray the judge sees how the absent father is abusive and does not deserve more visitation. I hope you have a better journey than we are with your court situation. There needs to be some way to hold attorneys accountable after they have taken thousands of dollars from a client.