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court-appointed investigator.”

The clerk opened the sealed document and read the summary into the record.

The investigator had found full cognitive capacity, clear articulation of financial responsibilities, consistent employment history, organized living conditions, no clinical indicators of impaired judgment. The petitioners’ characterization of the continue reading …