More Art Than Science: Incapacity Findings Prone To Abuse By
Cara Bayles | July 11, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT
The conservatorship of pop star Britney Spears has drawn fresh criticism to incapacity a designation that s part medical diagnosis, part legal determination, and can strip people of their rights to make their own financial and health care decisions. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
In the summer of 2018, four years into his guardianship, Doug Keegan kept breaking into his own house. He walked eight miles from his senior living facility to retrieve his bicycle from his Orlando home. He rode back to get suits to wear to his court hearings. He was also trying, he told Law360, to reestablish his residency there.