Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGLO 1976 NO. 53 >

Right of a mentally ill person who has been involuntarily committed to apply for voluntary status; procedures to be followed in recommitment of such a person to an involuntary patient.

AGO 1959 NO. 73 >

A parent may be required to pay the charges for hospitalization of an adult child where the estate of the patient is insufficient to defray said charges.

AGO 1956 NO. 252 >

"Domiciliary residence" means domicile. The legislature intended the 1953 act to be retrospective. The director of public institutions may not refuse the return of Washington residents confined in mental institutions without the state of Washington.