The California Supreme Court affirmed a judgment. The court held that counsel for a proposed conservatee may waive the proposed conservatee’s attendance at a hearing on a petition to establish a ...
Britney Spears performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in New York. The Spears conversatorship case has raised awareness for the broader overhaul ...
To the editor: Thank you for your editorial on self-determination and mental illness in the context of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the 1967 law on treating mentally ill people in California. I ...
For many people, the term ‘conservatorship’ may, at best, raise fuzzy memories of pop star Britney Spears battling in court several years ago for control of her money as well as her personal and ...
Mimi Murray believed she could fix it. All her son needed, she thought, was to come back to San Diego and get some help from Mom. She expected he would have a short stay at their Rancho Peñasquitos ...
(BCN) — Santa Clara County is expediting the implementation of new conservatorship rules for people suffering from severe mental illness and substance use disorders–the process will be complicated and ...
Families need the option to secure help for their incapacitated loved ones before they become agents or victims of tragedy.
County governments inherited much of the state’s responsibility for mental healthcare several decades ago but have seldom been up to the task. Often this is because of inadequate funding, but counties ...
In his state of the city address last week, San Diego Mayor Gloria called combating homelessness his top priority. Among the initiatives he proposed was working with the state to reform its ...