Mental Health

"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.”
- Former President Bill Clinton

Lawyer in Laramie, WY

Guardianship/Conservatorship
  • Securing control over an incompetent person and/or his or her medical care and finances
  • Obtaining court orders for medical or psychiatric treatment
  • Getting court approval for estate plans and real estate transactions
  • Acting as Guardian ad Litem for the alleged incompetent person
  • Removing a guardian or conservator for good cause
  • Securing court orders for involuntary admission to a psychiatric facility or drug/alcohol detoxification facility
  • Securing court orders for psychiatric treatment of a patient committed to a psychiatric facility
Psychiatric Advanced Health Care Directives
  • Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.
  • Wyoming law allows individuals to appoint an agent to make decisions about their mental health treatment if they become incompetent to make decisions; to write instructions about how they would like their mental health care to proceed; or both.
  • We will help you or a loved one draft a Psychiatric Advanced Health Care Directives.
    Link to Wyoming Psychiatric Advanced Health Care Statutes (Title 35, chapter 22 and click on article 3)
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/LSOWeb/wyStatutes.aspx
Involuntary Civil Commitment
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