LEGAL AID SOCIETY v. GUARDIANSHIP OF JAFFE

No. 4D15-357.

178 So.3d 527 (2015)

LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, INC., Public Guardianship Program, Appellant, v. The GUARDIANSHIP OF Jennifer JAFFE and Ferd and Gladys Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 4, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Hauser of Pankauski Law Firm PLLC and Rena J. Taylor of Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Antony P. Ryan , Regional Counsel, and Melanie Casper , Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, West Palm Beach, for appellee Jennifer Jaffe.

Mitchell I. Kitroser of Mitchell I. Kitroser, P.A., North Palm Beach, for appellee Ferd and Gladys Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service.


The Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., Public Guardianship Program, appeals an order appointing it to serve as successor guardian to a previously-declared incapacitated ward. The court appointed Legal Aid, despite its objection that to act as guardian for this ward would require it to exceed the statutorily set ratio of guardians...

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