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In theory, you could file a Marchman Act Petition without a lawyer, but trying to file a Marchman Act Petition without a lawyer is akin to trying to self-diagnose a medical problem. You could do it, but it’s not a very clever idea to do that, if you want to file it right. If you […]

A treatment order can be extended. Typically, the order is for 60 days. However, if the 60-day period is insufficient to address the respondent’s substance abuse issue, that period can be extended for 90-day increments. Typically, if you’re using an attorney, that attorney will use a court certified interventionist who can report to the court […]

Marchman Act records, and in fact, even the petition itself, is confidential, so somebody can’t go onto the Clerk of Courts website, and look up and see if a petition has been filed. The records that are kept by the substance abuse treatment provider are privileged under HIPAA. Unless the respondent wants to disclose that […]