Quote Quoting Dogmatique
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I think you misunderstood gam a little. No, the Doctor cannot file anything with the court - s/he has no standing UNLESS it's a mandatory psych hold (and that takes a hearing and due process). Think "Baker Act" or similar. (This assumes that Mom has been in more than the 72 hour "hold" which doesn't require a court order).

One thing sticks out though. Dehydration and exhaustion are generally symptoms of something else - it's entirely possible (if not likely) that Mom is being treated for the underlying cause, and you won't be able to find out that cause (not legally, anyway) unless Mom herself tells you.
I should have left that out completely to begin with, because I was speaking on Mi, poster is in Arizona(I got carried away and forgot that it was not my state), states vary on their laws with mental health. Poster needs to look up Arizona laws on this.

On the dehydration and exhaustion, if the Behavioral Hospital is like the ones around me, they would not treat these medical issues. Mom was transfered from a regular hospital, so here in Mi, she would have been treated for the dehydration and exhaustion at that medical hospital and then transfered to the Behavioral Hospital. Dehydration would need treatment first, and can be caused by something medical or by a mental health disorder. It could be that there is no medical underlying cause, but a mental health underlying cause, which can be as simple as the person not eating or drinking. Could be though that this facility treats both medical and mental.

Don't know if that is the case with the poster's ex, but dehydration is very common with someone having acute mental health issues. Often they are not taking proper care of themselves, not eating or drinking, often have other underlying conditions, such as eating disorders or substance abuse disorders, which both of those can cause dehydration. It could also be a medical condition causing the dehydration. So as you said she would be treated either way for the underlying cause of dehydration and exhaustion and she would have medically been treated for the dehydration.

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Quote Quoting jmkcardinal
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gam,
Thank you so much for your insight. You were right, the Social Worker was not able to tell me anything. We have determined that she is not in the facility for dehydration/exhaustion because they don't treat for that. I spoke with the mother today and she was sounding quite paranoid, asking me not to let our daughter out of my sight for a second because her aunts will take her from me which is so far from the truth. It is hard for me to believe that my daughter can't be protected in this instance, she admitted that her mother has been saying some very weird things lately. Speaking hypothetical since I don't know specifics, if she is diagnosed with bipolar or something similar, if she leaves the facility and the Dr feels like she is not fit to care for herself or at least care for her daughter, will the Dr will file papers with the court stating that fact? We are going to try and get her to sign the form so that I can talk to the facility about her case in regards to our daughter but our history is rocky at best. Not sure the mother will just allow me to keep her, she treats our daughter like a possession many times and is worried that if I have her too much then the child support can be lowered. I don't care about that, I just want to see my daughter more and keep her safe and not have to endure her mother if she is not well. I greatly appreciate your help as I am at my wits end and don't want to make matters worse but want to protect my daughter at all costs.
See Dogmatique's post and my reply to that post on dehydration/exhaustion. She could have been treated for dehydration in the medical hospital prior to her transfer to the behavioral health hospital.

Laws vary and I only know Mi laws, you need to google mental health laws for Arizona. Even knowing the laws, what you or the Aunts might think should be done, might not be what a professional thinks should be done. Say the facility and/or Dr(depending on state laws of who can petition a court)think mom should stay and can petition, a court may not think they have enough. Again it depends on state laws what they have to have to convince the court.

Keep in mind to that your daughter was taken care of, while you may not like that she was at the hospital, she was taken care of that day. Say mom had the child, and she got sick and had to go to the hospital for something medical, instead of mental, would you have had a problem with mom taking the child then? If mom needed to go, and the Aunts took her, maybe they didn't have no one else to look after her or have the time to get a hold of someone to look after her. First IMO would be get mom taken care of, then get the child set up. Child was taken care of while getting mom help. Point being mom managed to do her job, even with these issues. So your daughter was technically protected and a court can see it that way.