Case Name: In re Guardianship of Richardson
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 2008-12-24
Citations: 120 Ohio St. 3d 438
Docket Number: No. 2007-1546
Parties: In re Guardianship of Richardson.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., and O’Connor, O’Donnell, and Lanzinger, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 120
Pages: 438–440

Head Matter:
In re Guardianship of Richardson.
[Cite as In re Guardianship of Richardson, 120 Ohio St.3d 438, 2008-Ohio-6696.]
(No. 2007-1546
Submitted June 3, 2008
Decided December 24, 2008.)

Opinion:
{¶ 1} The portion of the court of appeals' judgment holding that appellee (appellant below) Norma Leach has standing to appeal the creation of a guardianship over Alice Richardson is reversed on the authority of our decision in In re Santrucek, 120 Ohio St.3d 67, 2008-Ohio-4915, 896 N.E.2d 683. This reversal does not affect other portions of the court of appeals' judgment on issues not accepted for review by this court.
Moyer, C.J., and O'Connor, O'Donnell, and Lanzinger, JJ., concur.
Pfeifer and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.
Cupp, J., dissents and would dismiss the cause as having been improvidently accepted.