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Under the Marchman Act statute, a hearing is going to be granted within ten days of the filing of the legally sufficient petition. However, that being said, typically, the courts know that these are done on an emergency basis and that the person, the respondent, is in crisis, and so typically those hearings will take […]

Under the Marchman Act, somebody can be held for assessment for up to five days. However, if that’s not enough time for the treatment provider to conduct the assessment, they can ask the court for an additional seven days so they can complete the assessment and then report to the court what their findings are.

There are two basic ways that a Marchman Act petition can be filed. If the parent or the guardian or the spouse is filing a petition without using an attorney, they would go down to the clerk of courts office and they would fill out the petition, and then it would get reviewed. If they’re […]