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Grandma on Ice: What State Decides Granny’s Fate?

A 2022 case alleging incapacity is still rocking four years later.

In re Mary Avery, an alleged Incapacitated Person is a kind of jurisdictional tour de force. It’s the kind of case which law professors would pick for moot court competitions. We write about it because the facts of Mary Avery’s recent life could happen to any of us.

We don’t know where Mary Avery started life. But she married and raised two kids. One lives in Harrisburg and the other in Bronx, NY. In 2000, …

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