San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Amanda B.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Conservatee Amanda B. appeals from a postjudgment order denying her petition for a rehearing on her status as a conservatee and denying her request to modify the disabilities that the trial court imposed as part of the judgment reestablishing Amanda’s conservatorship. After the court reestablished Amanda’s conservatorship and imposed a number of special disabilities on Amanda, she filed two petitions for rehearing, one in which she sought to challenge her status as a conservatee, and another in which she challenged the trial court’s imposition of special disabilities pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 5357, including the court’s decision to deny her (1) “[t]he privilege of possessing a license to operate a motor vehicle,” (2) the right to contract, and (3) the right to refuse or consent to medical treatment. (§ 5357,- subds. (a), (b), (d), (e).) The trial court denied Amanda’s petition for a rehearing on her status as a conservatee, but held a hearing on the issue of the special disabilities. After the hearing, the trial court denied Amanda’s request to remove the special disabilities.

On appeal, Amanda contends that there is insufficient…