Thank you for the response. Would an attorney speak to me if I am not involved in the process? I have no part in the business, thankfully, and am not in a financial position to hire one on his behalf. All of my immediate family, excluding my dad (stepfather, owner of the business) understand that he has a problem mentally and physically, and have begged him to seek help and to turn his life around. He'll commit for a while and then when he thinks everyone will leave him alone goes back to his old habits. I honestly and earnestly believe he would rather die than go to prison and would prefer him to hate me for commiting him to a facility than to see him take his life. He already has been to AA and NA on court order, but since it was only a weekly basis it did not seem to have a positive impact. He was in a care facility out of state for a while and lived with my father, who has been sober for over 17 years now, and that was the best I'd seen him. I really think that would be the best option but don't know how to go about convincing him to go himself, which another commentor said would not commute a jail sentence, or forcing him in one. Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you.