Court Opinion

ID: 9733088
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:53:07.952798+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:38.326124
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SABERS, Justice
(concurring specially).
I agree that it was an abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court to fail to appoint a neutral and objective non-family member as guardian of the person of Jennie Jacobsen. The new guardian of the person can decide, subject to the trial court’s approval, if it really is in Jennie’s best interest to live with Virginia and her family. As stated in my dissent in Dacy v. Gors, 471 N.W.2d 576, 582 (S.D.1991), “one cannot mask [an] abuse of discretion by failing to make the obvious findings and legal conclusions.”