November 13, 2024
Topic: Psychologist Assistance with Initiating and Maintaining Various Conservatorships
Probate Conservatorships, Murphy Conservatorships, Limited Conservatorships, Tribal Conservatorships. We will discuss who qualifies, the standard for each one of these conservatorships and who can initiate one. This will be followed by a discussion of the role of the psychologist in assessing the need for conservatorships.
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Hutchins, Private Psychotherapy Practice in Redlands, CA
Dr. Hutchins has been licensed as a psychologist since 1998. He has done over 13,000 conservatorship evaluations of various types, and has qualified as an expert witness in California Superior Courts more than 500 times.
He also provides psychotherapy for individual, couples and families since 1998.
At the Vista Pacifica Center for Rehabilitation, he is the consulting psychologist providing supervision of psychotherapy trainees, in-service training and consultation with administration and treatment team staff in this 108-bed locked residential treatment facility. He is also the Director of the Restoration to Competency program used by several California counties and the Conservatorship Evaluator for Riverside County Public Guardian providing evaluation and expert witness court testimony for LPS, Probate and Murphy Conservatorships within Riverside County.
Dr. Hutchins has also been involved in evaluations and court testimony for Laura’s Law Assisted Outpatient Treatment and the CARE court. He assists private attorneys as a Conservatorship Evaluator and providing Capacity and Conservatorship Evaluations.