to testify and may be subject to cross examination. Id. Although the guardianship statutes provide that the purpose of the guardian ad litem is to "represent the interests of the alleged incapacitated person," the guardianship statutes contain no provisions regarding the admissibility of the guardian ad litem's recommendations. Ind.Code § 29-8-2-8(a). Other jurisdictions have dealt with the admissibility of a guardian ad litem's recommendation in the absence of statutory authority regarding the admissibility in a variety of manners. See Lidman, Raven & Hollingsworth, Betsy, The Guardian Ad Litem in Child Custody Cases: The Contours of Our Judicial System Stretched Beyond Recognition, Groree Mason Law Winter 1998; see also Heistand v. Heistand, 267 Neb. 300, 673 N.W.2d 541, 550 (2004) (<HOLDING>); In re Duvall, 67 S.W.3d 736, 740
holding that the rejection of the exculpatory hearsay testimony of a government witness was in error particularly in view that accusatory hearsay was admitted holding that the court erroneously admitted hearsay testimony from adults concerning a childs statements to them regarding her fathers sexual abuse holding that the opinion testimony of a guardian ad litem and the hearsay incorporated therein were erroneously admitted holding that a hearsay error was harmless where the essential elements of the testimony were elsewhere properly admitted in evidence holding that the law in effect at the time a contract is made is as much a part of the contract as if incorporated therein