San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Martha P.

Opinion

HUFFMAN, Acting P. J.

Martha P. 1 appeals from the trial court’s grant of the San Diego County Health and Human Service’s Agency’s Office of the Public Conservator’s (public conservator’s) request to dismiss the petition to reestablish conservatorship of her person under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS Act or Act), Welfare and Institutions Code section 5000 et seq., and termination of her conservatorship. 2 We are called upon to decide whether the voluntary dismissal provision of Code of Civil Procedure section 581, subdivision (b)(1) may be utilized by the public conservator to…