Conservatorship of C. D. CA2/5

I. INTRODUCTION

C. D. appeals from an order establishing a probate conservatorship over her person. C.D. argues there is insufficient evidence to support the conservatorship order appointing her brothers, Richard and Timothy1 D., as probate conservators. We conclude substantial evidence supports the probate court’s finding that C.D. is unable to provide properly for her personal needs for physical health, food, clothing or shelter. (Prob. Code § 1801, subd. (a).) We affirm the judgment.

II. BACKGROUND

A. Petition For Appointment of Conservators

On February 7, 2011, Richard filed petitions seeking appointment of himself as a temporary and permanent probate conservator of his sister, C.D. The petitions were also filed on behalf of Richard’s brother, Timothy. The petitions allege C.D.: is 62 years old; suffers from schizophrenia; has been under a Lanterman-Petris-Short Act conservatorship in the past; did not currently have a conservator; lives in a long term unlocked residential psychiatric facility named MHA Village in Long Beach; refuses to take psychotropic medications; and her condition has worsened to the point she was “making bizarre and vaguely threatening statements to…