Interest of Plp

556 N.W.2d 657 (1996)

In the Interest of P.L.P.

WAYNE P., Petitioner and Appellee,

v.

P.L.P., Respondent and Appellant.

Civil No. 960343.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

December 4, 1996.

Jeanne L. McLean Behrens, State's Attorney, Bottineau, for petitioner and appellee. Submitted on brief.

Cynthia G. Schaar-Mecklenberg (argued), Jamestown, for respondent and appellant.

MESCHKE, Justice.

P.L.P. appealed a 90-day forced-hospitalization order for treatment of her chemical dependency on prescription drugs for pain. We affirm.

P.L.P., separated from her husband pending a divorce, voluntarily entered a…