Pioneer Trust Bank, N.A. v. Mental Health Division

The issue is whether circuit court or this court has jurisdiction to review a Mental Health Division (Division) order requiring petitioner to reimburse the cost of providing care for petitioner’s trust’s beneficiaries. The circuit court, not this court, has jurisdiction. We therefore dismiss this judicial review.

Mary and Mavis Hawkins have been patients at a state institution for a number of years. They also are the beneficiaries of a trust fund established by their parents and administered by petitioner, Pioneer Trust Bank (Bank). Division issued an order determining that Bank, as trustee,…