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Index to Outlines and Other Legal Writings

• Primer on Virginia Civil Commitment and Surrogate Medical Consent (2006)
• Annotated Analysis of Virginia Civil Commitment Statutes (4/02)
• When the Community Services Board Disagrees with the Physician: Third Party Instituted Temporary Detention Order Procedure Memorandum
• Psychiatric Advance Directive Page (Note: Not Expressly Recognized in Virginia as of December, 2003)
• Table of Selected State Civil Commitment Statutes
• Mental Illness: Surgeon General Report
• National Alliance for Mentally Ill (NAMI)
• In Virginia, May A Guardian Commit His Incapacitated Adult Ward?
  • Trial memorandum in favor
  • Trial memorandum in opposition
  • The circuit court held that the guardian could not commit the ward involuntarily.  Involuntary commitment of an adjudicated incapacitated ward requires process pursuant to established civil commitment statutes (see Primer).