Legal Question in Criminal Law in Minnesota

My father is 90 years old and he was recently hospitalized for an illness. While he was in the hospital a secretary for a local lawyer walked into my fathers room where he was sitting alone and handed him an envelope, she said to call his daughter and left him there alone. One of my Fathers nurses walked in later to find him reading these papers, very distraught and could not beleive what she saw. It was papers for a divorce filed by his wife. The nurse called me and told me I had better get to the hospital right away as he was having a very hard time with this. My question is, could this Lawyer be somehow held accountable for doing this to a vulnerable adult in the way he did?


Asked on 9/13/11, 3:44 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Maury Beaulier612.240.8005 Minnesota Lawyers

Legal papers must be served personally by a non-party. There is nothing illegal regarding the service that occurred. Though it may be questionable from a moral point of view, it is not actionable legally.

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Answered on 9/14/11, 6:22 pm


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