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IN RE WIRSING

Docket No. 104834, Calendar No. 15.

573 N.W.2d 51 (1998)

456 Mich. 467

In re Lora Faye WIRSING, developmentally disabled person. Donna L. WIRSING, plenary guardian of Lora Faye Wirsing, Petitioner-Appellant, v. MICHIGAN PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SERVICE, Intervenor-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 3, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert J. Booth and John P. Siler, Flint, for petitioner-appellant.

Calvin A. Luker, Marsha Lynn Tuck, Livonia, Stewart R. Hakola, Marquette, and Mark A. Cody, Lansing, for intervenor-appellee.

Mark Todd Twichel, Goodrich, amici curiae for American Association of Mental Retardation, Arc of Michigan, Association for Community Advocacy, and Autism Society of Michigan.

OPINION

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, Justice.

In this case we are asked to determine if a probate court has the statutory authority to permit the plenary guardian of a ward to consent to a tubal ligation of the ward for birth control purposes. For the reasons indicated below, we conclude that the probate court does have such authority. We further conclude that the authority was properly exercised in this case, and therefore affirm the order of the Genesee County...

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