The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Friday it has initiated a contested case hearing on PolyMet’s NorthMet mining project, as directed by the Minnesota Supreme Court. The hearing ...

There is a disturbing trend where contested guardianship cases are being litigated like plenary proceedings, ignoring the fact that they are special proceedings. This strategy intentionally drags out ...

The goal of a guardianship is often to declare the ward legally incapacitated, taking away the ward’s right to make decisions and giving those rights to the guardian. Tinpixels / Getty Images (Part ...

A guardianship case is initiated when someone files an application for guardianship in the appropriate court, such as a probate court. Courtesy / Getty Images/iStockphoto Recipe for a contested ...

TORRINGTON -- Appropriately or not, Eli Schutts, an 86-year-old retired philosophy professor at Western Connecticut State University, has been a resident of Litchfield Woods Health Care Center since ...