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GUARDIANSHIP & CONSERVATORSHIP OF SCHMIDT

No. 86-238.

401 N.W.2d 37 (1987)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP OF Martha SCHMIDT. Lester SCHMIDT, Appellant, v. Leroy ROHDE, as Guardian and Conservator of the Estate of Martha Schmidt, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E.H. Phelps II, Newton, for appellant.

Macauley Carter, Jr. of Johnson, Sudenga, Carter, Latham & Peglow, Marshalltown, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and McGIVERIN, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and WOLLE, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

This is a single-issue appeal. Who should be guardian and conservator for Martha Schmidt? Plaintiff is the ward's stepson who claims to stand closer to her than the guardian-conservator appointed by the trial court. We nevertheless agree with the trial court that the stepson cannot mount a collateral attack on the selection.

A guardian and conservator is clearly needed. In early 1985 the eighty-eight-year-old, blind ward suffered a "fairly...

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