BENEDICT v. FOSTER

Nos. 45472, 45473.

300 So.2d 8 (1974)

Robert BENEDICT and Patricia Junod, Co-Guardians of the Person of Kenneth P. Foster, Incompetent, Petitioners, v. Virginia FOSTER and Susan Seiler, Respondents. Robert BENEDICT and Patricia Junod, As Co-Guardians of the Person of Kenneth P. Foster, Incompetent, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Paul T. DOUGLAS, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, Probate Division, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander M. Siegel of Collins, Siegel & Randall, Margate, for petitioners.

Jos. D. Farish, Jr., of Farish & Farish, West Palm Beach, for Virginia Foster and Susan Seiler.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and John A. Barley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Honorable Paul T. Douglas.


OVERTON, Justice.

This is before the Court upon a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus1 and Petition for Writ of Certiorari.2 It concerns a dispute over who is to be the guardian of the person of the incompetent, Kenneth P. Foster, and which Circuit Court has supervision of the incompetent and his estate.

The problem is accentuated by numerous legal proceedings in the Circuit Courts of the Fifteenth and...

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