IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF SCHIAVO

No. 2D01-3626.

800 So.2d 640 (2001)

In re GUARDIANSHIP OF Theresa Marie SCHIAVO, Incapacitated. Robert Schindler and Mary Schindler, Appellants, v. Michael Schiavo, as Guardian of the person of Theresa Marie Schiavo, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied November 1 and November 7, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Fields Anderson, St. Petersburg, and Lawrence D. Crow, Tarpon Springs, for Appellants.

George J. Felos of Felos & Felos, P.A., Dunedin, for Appellee.


ALTENBERND, Judge.

This is the third opinion issued by this court addressing a bitter dispute among the members of Mrs. Theresa Schiavo's family over her medical condition and her right to forego life-prolonging medical procedures. See In re Guardianship of Schiavo (Schindler v. Schiavo), 780 So.2d 176 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001) ("Schiavo I"); In re Guardianship of Schiavo (Schindler v. Schiavo), 792...

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