Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Laurie Jean Pederson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court erred by failing to conduct proceedings to determine whether the elderly husband “was competent enough to bring a proper divorce action and whether [the w]ife was competent enough to defend it”
• holding “the trial court and the parties have an obligation to ascertain the competency of the parties when the circumstances call it into question”
• “Upon each allegation that one of these parties was not competent to proceed, the trial court should have continued the proceedings to immediately resolve that question.”
• court only -7- J-S15032-25 required to investigate party’s competence when issue sufficiently raised
• court only required to investigate party’s competence when issue sufficiently raised

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