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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I did.  I filed in court myself.  Easy process.  You do not need an attorney.  [/quote]

Did your parent consent to this?  I find it disconcerting that it was an easy process to get guardianship over another adult with no attorneys (or doctors?) involved.[/quote]

Not our experience at all. If the parent refuses the neurological exam or walks out during it, good luck! Perhaps it is easy with a compliant and pleasant parent. Try one who threatens to sue everyone and is explosive.[/quote]

No big deal.  My relative was explosive and could not say their name let alone a conversation.  That proved dementia.  The form is a simple sign off.  You don’t need a neurologist just two doctors.  Can be two urgent cares.   You can probably do a virtual doctor too now.  We just filled out the paperwork, sent notice to interested parties, two regular doctors to sign off on it, court assigned her an attorney to investigate and she agreed.   The court hearing was 5-10 minutes and that attorney handled it all so we did not need one.   We got physical and financial guardianship.  Had to file yearly reports.  [/quote]

Doctors will do this virtually? And urgent cares? That really surprises me.[/quote]

I'm not sure if they'd do it  virtually but we do a lot of virtual appointments and kinda surprised at some of it.  We used an urgent care for one of the two signatures and a primary care doctor that we took her to maybe 2-3 times before.  But, it was very clear it was dementia.[/quote]

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