Wright v. White

The single issue in this case is *465whether a person who is both conservator of a disabled adult and a joint owner with the disabled adult of certain bank accounts loses his status of joint owner with rights of survivorship when he closes the joint accounts and deposits the funds in a conservator’s account opened to consolidate the disabled adult’s assets.

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In September, 1979, petitioner Justice M. Wright was summoned to Detroit from his home in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, by friends of his sister, Mabel Laveta Wright. At that time Mabel was seventy-two years old and living alone. Her physical…