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IN THE MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF EBERHARDY

No. 78-661.

97 Wis.2d 654 (1980)

294 N.W.2d 540

IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP OF Joan I. EBERHARDY, Incompetent: Quintin EBERHARDY and Mary Eberhardy, Guardians, Appellants, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR WOOD COUNTY, The Honorable Dennis D. Conway, Presiding, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided May 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was submitted on the brief of Edward F. Zappen and Zappen, Meissner & Craig, with whom on the brief was William J. Dehn, guardian ad litem, all of Marshfield.

For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, with whom on the brief were Donald P. Johns, assistant attorney general, and George B. Schwahn, assistant attorney general.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Bablitch, J. and Dykman, J.

BABLITCH, J.

This is a joint appeal by the guardians and guardian ad litem of Joan Eberhardy, an incompetent adult, from an order of the circuit court for Wood County denying the guardians' petition for an order authorizing them to sign a consent for her sterilization.

The facts are not in dispute. Joan Eberhardy is a twenty-two-year-old woman who is "moderately severely" retarded. She has a mental age of two to...

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