[Lone Voice in the hinterlands]

Got IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judge Lets Parents Challenge Custody of Terri Schiavo
The Associated Press
Published: Nov 5, 2003




CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - A state circuit judge Wednesday refused to block an effort by the parents of a brain-damage woman to try to get her husband removed as her legal guardian.
Attorneys for Michael Schiavo now have to respond in court to charges in the petition that he withheld proper care and therapy from his wife, Terri Schiavo, and that he has a conflict of interest because he's in a romantic relationship with another woman.

Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of Terri Schiavo, asked Circuit Judge George W. Greer to appoint Terri's brother or sister as guardian instead.

Schiavo had asked for the Schindler's request to be dismissed, but Greer refused.

In the past, Greer has repeatedly affirmed Michael Schiavo's legal right to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and allow her to die, as he says she would have wished.

The guardianship issue is a sidebar to what is likely to be a major legal battle over a hastily passed state law that let Gov. Jeb Bush order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Oct. 21.

Michael Schiavo's attorney, with backing by the American Civil Liberties Union, has challenged the constitutionality of the law.

AP-ES-11-05-03 1613EST

[Lone Voice in the hinterlands]

And here is the web address.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAU32EVNMD.html

[sweetliberty]

Is this on a separate thread yet?

[Theodore R.]

The guardianship issue is a sidebar to what is likely to be a major legal battle over a hastily passed state law that let Gov. Jeb Bush order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube Oct. 21.

To me, the guardianship is more important than the constitutionality of the law at this time. If Schiavo is removed as guardian, isn't he out of the picture? And the law is obviously constitutional unless the judiciary insists on trying to have the last word on the matter.

[Shortstop7]

This is such WONDERFUL News.......I am still afraid to believe it........

Do you think the volume of emails influenced the Judge? Something sure did........maybe he finally opened his eyes and looked at all of the information, which he refused to consider before.


Thank God! I am SO happy for Terri, and her family. I only hope the good news continues!

I am a newbie, but want to say Congrats to all of you, for all of your hard work.