Archive for July, 2001
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2001
In re: Copelan – Adult Guardianship Petition
In this case, several children petitioned the probate court to appoint a guardian for their mother due to alleged mental disability and undue influence over their mother by some of their siblings. The appellate court held1 that susceptibility to undue influence, without more independent evidence of mental incompetence, besides susceptibility, does not satisfy the legal…