Bombay High Court, under parens patriae doctrine, appoints daughter as legal guardian of mother with dementia

Source:  SCC Online

The present petition was filed under Article 226 of the Constitution invoking the doctrine of parens patriae whereby Petitioners 1 and 2, being son and daughter respectively of Madhura Manmohan Khanvilkar, aged 78 years, were before this Court praying that Petitioner 2 be appointed as a guardian of her mother who was suffering from dementia and severe degree of cognitive impairment. The Division Bench of G.S. Kulkarni* and Advait M. Sethna, JJ., opined that it needed to apply the legal principles on the doctrine of parens patriae to the present case and thus held that Petitioner 2 shall be treated and accepted as a legal guardian of her mother.... To read more please go to the following link:

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