In re R.L.

R.L. appeals the family court’s involuntary hospitalization order and its denial of his request for an order directing the Vermont State Hospital (VSH) to accept him as a voluntary patient. R.L. claims that 18 V.S.A. § 7703(a) authorizes involuntary treatment only where voluntary treatment is “not possible,” and that, in his case, the State failed to show that voluntary treatment was not possible. The family court denied R.L.’s request because it concluded that R.L. was required to exhaust the grievance procedures available at VSH prior to seeking judicial review of his request for voluntary…