Four years later, Hector Morera has learned just how expensive a divorce and child custody court case in Connecticut can be.

Although he is representing himself, the 46-year-old father of two from Glastonbury said he has had to pay about $30,000 for a court-appointed advocate for the children called a guardian ad litem, costs that have helped wipe out his retirement savings account. And he still doesn’t know exactly what the guardian ad litem is supposed to be doing, he said.

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