In re B.A.F.

Chief Justice Mike McGrath delivered the Opinion of the Court.

***99¶1 B.A.F. appeals from a June 6, 2017 Tenth Judicial District Court order extending his commitment to the Montana Mental Health Nursing Care Center (Care Center). We affirm.

¶2 We restate the issue on appeal as follows:

Whether the requirements of § 53-21-119(1), MCA, applied when B.A.F. requested a hearing to stipulate to the extension of his ***100involuntary commitment.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶3 B.A.F. is a sixty-six-year-old man with a long-standing history of mental illness. B.A.F. suffers from schizophrenia,…