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COUNTY OF DUNN v. GOLDIE H

No. 00-1137.

245 Wis.2d 538 (2001)

2001 WI 102

629 N.W.2d 189

IN the MATTER OF the GUARDIANSHIP AND PROTECTIVE PLACEMENT OF GOLDIE H.: COUNTY OF DUNN, Petitioner-Respondent, v. GOLDIE H., Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 10, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by John E. Joyce, Menomonie, and oral argument by John E. Joyce.

For the petitioner-respondent there was a brief and oral argument by Nicholas P. Lange, assistant corporation counsel.

¶ 1. DAVID T. PROSSER, J.

Goldie H. was protectively placed at the Dunn County Health Care Center in 1998. The circuit court conducted a summary hearing and made the requisite findings that she was incompetent and required residential care and custody as the result of the infirmities of aging. In making this initial placement, the authorities in Dunn County afforded Goldie H. all the procedural rights to which she was entitled by law.

¶ 2. A year...

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