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Matter of Dameris L.

Surrogate, New York County, applying the “constitutional imperative” of least-restrictive alternative, and citing the CRPD, terminates guardianship of a 32-year-old woman who had been found “to be functioning at the mental age of a seven year old” based on evidence that she ‘is able to exercise her legal capacity, to make and act on her own decisions, with the assistance of a support network which has come together for her since she first appeared in this court.” 

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