AGO Opinion Topics: INSANE PERSONS

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.

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.

"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.