Causal Document & Date Filed : Petition for Appointment of Temporary Guardian or Conservator, 09/21/2018
The court appoints the deputy public defender to represent the interests of the proposed temporary conservatee as a discretionary Probate Code 1470 (a)appointment.
Petitioner mother, age 81, seeks an ex parte order for temporary conservatorship over the person and estate of her daughter, who was seriously injured in automobile accident on August 10, 2018. After waiting 42 days after the accident to file the petition due to exigency, petitioner does not seek a statutory temporary conservatorship on five days notice as authorized by Probate Code §2250. Instead, by setting hearing four days after filing without notice to proposed temporary conservatee's three brothers, petitioner compels an additional reconsideration hearing under §2250(f). The court recognizes the need to make medical decisions for the proposed temporary conservatee pending the