Guardianship & Conservatorship of Schmidt

HARRIS, Justice.

This is a single-issue appeal. Who should be guardian and conservator for Martha Schmidt? Plaintiff is the ward's stepson who claims to stand closer to her than the guardian-conservator appointed by the trial court. We nevertheless agree with the trial court that the stepson cannot mount a collateral attack on the selection.

A guardian and conservator is clearly needed. In early 1985 the eighty-eight-year-old, blind ward suffered a “fairly severe cerebrovascular accident,” which left her partially paralyzed on her right side. In March of 1985, while recovering from a…