State, Office of Public Advocacy, Office of Elder Fraud & Assistance v. Estate of Jean R.

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The State Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) filed a petition for an ex parte protective order on behalf of an elderly woman against her adult daughter and caregiver, after receiving allegations of financial abuse made by the elderly woman's other family members. The superior court found those allegations to be unfounded and denied the protective order. The elderly woman's other daughter had previously initiated a conservatorship proceeding, in which the State then participated-in support of the conservatorship-after the denial of the protective order.…