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GUARDIANSHIP OF HOCKER

439 Mass. 709 (2003)

GUARDIANSHIP OF LON HOCKER

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

July 10, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathy Pett Ryman for Lon Hocker, III, & another.

Eric K. Rasmussen (Lisa F. Sherman with him) for the guardian.

Present: MARSHALL., C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

We are asked to determine whether a judge in the Probate and Family Court erred in allowing a motion of a guardian to strike the notice of appearance of an attorney, which had purportedly been filed on behalf of the guardian's mentally incompetent ward. See G. L. c. 201, § 6.1 The attorney, Kathy Pett Ryman, filed the appearance against the wishes of the court-appointed permanent...

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