Is it legal to baker-act a sick patient without talking to the family or wife

It depends on whether the patient was a minor. A physician has the legal authority to Baker Act. Criteria to start an involuntary psychiatric...

Can a hospital give you drugs without your permission? If you sign papers under threat of duress, are they binding?

Under the Baker Act, the only mechanism to give you drugs without your permission is called Emergency Treatment Orders (ETOs). Also, the paper...

He probably was not "committed." It depends on whether there was as judicial hearing. (I doubt there was.) Now, but not 20 years ago, there might...

Is there any avenue of recourse for being Baker Acted?

yes

How to get my adult daughter out of baker act

It's complicated. There are many factors involved, such as whether she's in a general hospital being treated for the cut, whether she's anywhere...

What to do if wife says she will commit suicide again?

Call law enforcement

My son (18 year old) was taken from his school and baker acted without the school calling me first.

There is no legal requirement in the Baker Statute that you be notified. Even though he is in school, he is considered an adult if he is 18.

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Is psychiatric care considered personal injury?

There is qualified immunity. According to chapter 394, someone Baker Acted is supposed to be taken to a designated (by DCF) receiving facility or...

How long can someone be held in a receiving facility if the are taken by police there based on a suicide threat?

Guardianship law will not help you much in a Baker Act receiving facility. In fear of violating HIPAA, the receiving facility is unlikely to share...

My Fiance is being held against his will at mental facility

Chapter 394 of the Florida Statutes governs. (As you already know). I will be happy to help you.