Petition for appointment of guardian.

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Any person may petition the district court for appointment of a guardian for a declarant when the person has good reason to believe that the provision of mental health treatment in a particular case:

1. Is contrary to the most recent expressed wishes of a declarant who was capable at the time of expressing the wishes;

2. Is being proposed pursuant to an advance directive for mental health treatment that has been falsified, forged, or coerced; or

3. Is being considered without the benefit of a revocation which has been unlawfully concealed, destroyed, altered or canceled.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 251, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.


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