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26-2A-78
education, or maintenance, but a guardian is not personally liable for the ward's expenses
and is not liable to third persons by reason of the relationship for acts of the ward. (b)
In particular and without qualifying the foregoing, a guardian shall: (1) Become or remain
personally acquainted with the ward and maintain sufficient contact with the ward to know
of the ward's capacities, limitations, needs, opportunities, and physical and mental health;
(2) Take reasonable care of the ward's personal effects and commence protective proceedings
if necessary to protect other property of the ward; (3) Apply any available money of the ward
to the ward's current needs for health, support, education, or maintenance; (4) Conserve any
excess money of the ward for the ward's future needs, but if a conservator has been appointed
for the estate of the ward, the guardian, at least quarterly, shall pay to the conservator
money of the ward to be conserved for the ward's future needs; and (5)...
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26-2A-20
after the appointment of a conservator, including expenses of administration. (2) CONSERVATOR.
A person who is appointed by a court to manage the estate of a protected person and includes
a limited conservator described in Section 26-2A-148(a). (3) COURT. A probate court of this
state. (4) COURT REPRESENTATIVE. A person appointed in a guardianship or protective proceeding
who is trained in law, nursing, or social work, is an officer, employee, or special appointee
of the court, and has no personal interest in the proceeding. (5) DISABILITY. Cause
for a protective order as described in Section 26-2A-130. (6) ESTATE. Includes the property
of the person whose affairs are subject to this chapter. (7) GUARDIAN. A person who has qualified
as a guardian of a minor or incapacitated person pursuant to parental or spousal nomination
or court appointment and includes a limited guardian as described in Sections 26-2A-78(e)
and 26-2A-105(c), but excludes one who is merely a guardian ad litem. (8)...
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26-2A-6
Section 26-2A-6 Facility of payment or delivery; notice of payment. (a) Any person under a
duty to pay or deliver money or personal property to a minor may perform the duty,
in amounts as provided in this subsection, by paying or delivering the money or personal
property to: (1) Any person having the care and custody of the minor and with whom the minor
resides; (2) A guardian of the minor; or (3) The judge of probate of the county in which the
minor resides, if a resident of this state, or, if a nonresident, to the judge of probate
or like officer of the county in which the debtor or creditor resides. Payments under this
subsection must not exceed $5,000 if paid in a single payment, or $3,000 a year if paid in
a series of payments, and payments, by any person other than a conservator or judge, must
not exceed a maximum of $25,000 during the minority of the minor ward. The person obligated
to make payment is discharged of that duty or obligation by making the payment or delivery
and...
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12-15-314
care to participate in activities that are age or developmentally appropriate for the child
based on a reasonable and prudent parent standard, provided the activities are consistent
with provisions of any existing court order, individualized service plan, or promulgated policy
of the department that provides guidance to caregivers concerning the reasonable and prudent
parent standard. The guidance shall include factors for the caregiver to consider prior to
allowing a child to participate in age or developmentally appropriate normal childhood activities.
(2) A caregiver shall be immune from liability in a civil action to recover damages for injury,
death, or loss to person or property that results from a caregiver's decisions using a reasonable
and prudent parent standard. This subsection shall not be construed to remove or limit any
existing liability protection provided by law. (Act 2008-277, p. 441, §18; Act 2010-712,
p. 1744, §13; Act 2016-129, p. 290, §1; Act 2018-273, §1.)...
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26-2A-108
Section 26-2A-108 General powers and duties of guardian. (a) Except as limited pursuant to
Section 26-2A-105(c), a guardian of an incapacitated person is responsible for health, support,
education, or maintenance of the ward, but is not liable to third persons by reason of that
responsibility for acts of the ward. In particular and without qualifying the foregoing, a
guardian has the same duties, powers, and responsibilities as a guardian for a minor as described
in Section 26-2A-78(b), (c), and (d). (b) Except as provided in Division 2A, in addition to
the duties, powers, and responsibilities of a guardian described in subsection (a), a guardian
of an incapacitated person has the power to limit or enforce the ward's right to visitation
or communication with anyone, including the right to receive visitors, telephone calls, and
personal mail. (Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975, §2-209; Act 2016-404, §1.)...
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26-8-45
Section 26-8-45 Removal of property or money when minor or ward and conservator nonresidents
- When removal of person and estate of minor or ward permitted. The guardian may remove the
person or the conservator may remove the estate of a minor or ward to another state by making
a full settlement with the judge of the probate court where his or her letters were granted
of his or her conservator accounts and by procuring a transcript of the record of a court
of competent jurisdiction of such other state, certified according to the act of Congress,
showing the appointment of such person as guardian or conservator of the minor or ward, the
execution of bond by the conservator with surety for the performance of the trust. Thereupon,
the judge of probate must make an order authorizing such removal. (Code 1852, §2031; Code
1867, §2441; Code 1876, §2796; Code 1886, §2493; Code 1896, §2379; Code 1907, §4469;
Code 1923, §8242; Code 1940, T. 21, §114; Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975,...
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26-2-2
Section 26-2-2 Removal of guardianship or conservatorship from probate to circuit court. The
administration or conduct of any guardianship or conservatorship of a minor or incapacitated
person may be removed from the probate court to the circuit court, at any time before the
final settlement thereof by the guardian or conservator of any such guardianship or conservatorship
or guardian ad litem or next friend of such ward or anyone entitled to support out of the
estate of such ward without assigning any special equity, and an order of removal must be
made by the court or judge upon the filing of a sworn petition by any such guardian or conservator
or guardian ad litem or next friend for the ward or such person entitled to support out of
the estate of such ward, reciting in what capacity the petitioner acts and that in the opinion
of the petitioner such guardianship or conservatorship can be better administered in the circuit
court than in the probate court. (Code 1923, §8102; Acts...
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26-2A-153
shall consider recommendations relating to the appropriate standard of support, education,
and benefit for the protected person or dependents made by a parent or guardian, if any. The
conservator may not be surcharged for sums paid to persons or organizations furnishing support,
education, or maintenance to the protected person or a dependent pursuant to the recommendations
of a parent or guardian of the protected person unless the conservator knows that the parent
or guardian derives personal financial benefit therefrom, including relief from any
personal duty of support, or the recommendations are clearly not in the best interest
of the protected person. (2) The conservator shall expend or distribute sums reasonably necessary
for the health, support, education, or maintenance of the protected person and dependents
with due regard to (i) the size of the estate, the probable duration of the conservatorship,
and the likelihood that the protected person, at some future time, may be...
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26-8-46
Section 26-8-46 Removal of property or money when minor or ward and conservator nonresidents
- Transcript showing appointment as conservator of minor or ward in state of residence, etc.;
notice to resident administrator, guardian, etc.; entry of order authorizing removal of property
to state of residence. The conservator must produce a transcript from the records of a court
of competent jurisdiction, certified according to the act of Congress, showing that he or
she has been appointed conservator of the minor or ward in the state in which he or she and
the minor or ward reside and has duly qualified as such according to the laws thereof and
given bond, with surety, for the performance of his or her trust; and must also give 10 days'
notice to the resident executor, administrator, or conservator, if there is such, of the intended
application. Thereupon, if good cause is not shown to the contrary and the judge of probate
shall be satisfied, upon proof being made, that it will be for the...
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26-8-23
Section 26-8-23 Preparation, certification, and filing of record of proceedings; grant of guardianship
or conservatorship and filing of transcript thereof; removal; powers of guardian or conservator
as to recovery, receipt, etc., of property of minor or ward. If the removal authorized is
of the person and property of the minor or ward, a transcript of the record of the proceedings
must be made and certified and filed in the court of probate of the county to which the removal
is to be made. Upon the filing of such transcript, such court has jurisdiction to grant guardianship
or conservatorship of the person or conservatorship of property of the minor or ward, and
on such grant being made and a transcript thereof, duly certified, being filed in the court
of probate authorizing the removal, such removal may be made. The conservator so appointed
has full authority to demand, recover, and receive the property of the minor or ward from
and after the making of the removal. (Code 1886, §2486;...
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