Justin W. McPhail v. Pamela McPhail

BARNES, J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. On April 29, 2015, Justin McPhail and Anthony Page Portera (Page) filed a petition with the Calhoun County Chancery Court, requesting to be appointed as guardians of their grandmother, Frances McPhail. At the initiation of the proceedings, Frances was eighty-six years old and a patient at a nursing home in Calhoun City, Mississippi. She had recently been diagnosed as suffering from dementia. 1 The petition claimed that Frances had executed a durable power of attorney on January 29, 2015, appointing Justin and/or Page and/or Patricia (Patty) Hibbard, Frances’s…