guardianship

Jeanne Southall lived were her friend Catherine Galvin in Walla Walla. Then Jeanne ended up in the hospital for an injury. What happened after that changed both of their lives -- and made for a long, complicated and painful legal fight neither one wanted.

A Washington state senator who says he’s heard from “literally hundreds of parents” of adult children who are struggling with mental illness or addiction wants to allow families to petition for temporary guardianship.