The court shall hear and determine the matter of the establishment of the conservatorship according to the law and procedure relating to the trial of civil actions, including trial by jury if demanded by the proposed conservatee.
Cal. Prob. Code § 1827
Establishment of Conservatorship
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 48 Cal. 4th 131 - San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. John L. (2010)
Most recently applied in 2 Cal. 5th 983 - Shaw v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty. (April 2017)
Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 17, Sec. 4.2
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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