Guardianship and Conservatorship

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Defense Against Guardianship: A Lawyer's Guide to Representing  Individuals in Guardianship Cases 

Policy and Practice

Recent Commission on Law and Aging Policies

• Guardianship Court Improvement Program (Aug 2021)
• Guardianship Bill of Rights and Protecting the Right to Due Process in Guardianship Proceedings. August 2023, 506. - Policy 506 urges national, state, local, territorial and tribal law and policy-making bodies to adopt the provisions of the Guardianship Bill of Rights, promulgated by the National Guardianship Network in 2022 and protect the right to Due Process in guardianship proceedings.
• Please visit the Commission's Policy Page for additional listings of Guardianship policy.
  
• Uniform Law Commission- Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act (December 2017- Approved by the ABA in 2018)
• Research and Recommendations on Restoration of Rights in Adult Guardianship (January 2017)
• 7th World Congress on Adult Capacity (June 2022)

Practice Tools and Additional Resources

• Five Ways Lawyers Can Become Industry Thought Leaders by Advising on Alternatives to Guardianship (May 2022)
  
• Adult Guardian Handbooks by State (June 2019)
• Find out more about the Commission's Volunteer Guardianship Monitoring Handbooks project
• Managing Someone Else's Money Guides

National Guardianship Summits

• Fourth National Guardianship Conference Recommendations (May 2021)
• Third National Guardianship Summit Standards and Recommendations (October 2011)
• Wingspan—The Second National Guardianship Conference Recommendations (December 2011)
• Wingspread—The First National Guardianship Conference Recommendations and Report (July 1988)
• The PRACTICAL Tool (2016)

Legal Charts

• Criminal and Credit Background Checks for Guardians (August 2020)
  
• Conservatorship and Guardianship Bonds: State Statutory Requirements (April 2014)
  
• Emergency Guardianship (November 2023)
• State Statutory Duties of Guardians ad Litem  (July 2018)
  
• State Statutory Duties of Court Visitors  (July 2018)
• Guardian Authority for Residential Decisions (August 2010) 
• Privacy and Confidentiality: Guardianship Statutes and Court Rules (August 2020)
• Restoration Procedures  (June 2013)
• Role of Clinical Evaluation Professionals in Adult Guardianship Proceedings (July 2016)
  
• Mandatory or Voluntary Standards of Practice for Guardians (January 2022)
  
• State Guardian Certification Chart (August 2024)
• State Statutes or Court Rules on Guardianship Complaint Processes (June 2018)
• Capacity Definition & Initiation of Guardianship Proceedings (December 2022)
• Notice in Guardianship Proceedings  (December 2022)
  
• Guardianship Procedure  (December 2022)
• Monitoring Following Guardianship  Proceedings (December 2022)

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