{"id":12508,"date":"2026-07-19T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12508"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:39:35","slug":"commitment-record-not-expunged-pa-super-np","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12508","title":{"rendered":"Commitment Record Not Expunged (Pa. Super. NP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not an abuse of discretion for the Orphans&#8217; Court to refuse to expunge the petitioner&#8217;s record of involuntary commitment, and restore his right to possess firearms, despite testimony in support of the petition from the petitioner&#8217;s family and a psychologist, when the petition was filed only seven months after the commitment and the petitioner&#8217;s current treatment plan was intended to address possible anxieties and rule out a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.  <em>Z.C. v. Allegheny Co. Dept. of Behavioral Health<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A16021-26m%20-%20106853275366337997.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">1597 WDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 7\/15\/2026) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not an abuse of discretion for the Orphans&#8217; Court to refuse to expunge the petitioner&#8217;s record of involuntary commitment, and restore his right to possess firearms, despite testimony in support of the petition from the petitioner&#8217;s family and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=12508\">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":[341],"class_list":["post-12508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-involuntary-commitment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508","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=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12513,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}