Alongi v. Young

In 1992, the trial court granted respondents’ ex parte motion for appointment of a temporary guardian of appellant’s (mother’s) daughter, then 15-1/2 years old. The court dismissed mother’s contemporaneous petition for a writ of habeas corpus. After a hearing, the trial court found mother unfit, appointed defendants to be guardians of the daughter and ordered mother to pay child support to defendants. Mother appealed, assigning error to the appointment of defendants as temporary guardians, the dismissal of her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the trial court’s decision that mother was…