{"id":10572,"date":"2024-03-31T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10572"},"modified":"2024-03-31T22:11:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T02:11:24","slug":"no-less-restrictive-alternative-for-plenary-guardianship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10572","title":{"rendered":"No Less Restrictive Alternative to Plenary Guardianship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court properly concluded that there were no less restrictive alternatives for an alleged incapacitated person, and that a plenary guardian of his person and estate were necessary, when the alleged incapacitated person was shown to be suffering from &#8220;hallucinations, paranoid schizophrenia, diffuse cognitive dysfunction, psychotic disorder, and acute metabolic,&#8221; had no available family, friends, or other supports to help him make decisions, and had complicated health issues which he lacked the ability to comprehend and evaluate.   <em>In re:  Estate of D.W., an Incapacitated Person<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S02037-24m%20-%20105848060256585981.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1805 EDA 2023<\/a> (Pa. Super. 2\/27\/2024) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court properly concluded that there were no less restrictive alternatives for an alleged incapacitated person, and that a plenary guardian of his person and estate were necessary, when the alleged incapacitated person was shown to be suffering from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[141,142,790],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-guardianship","tag-incapacitated-person","tag-less-restrictive-alternative","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}