Creating the 'Portable' Guardianship: Legal and Practical Implications of Probate Court Cooperation in Interstate Guardianship Cases

Authors

Charlene D. Daniel, National Center for State Courts
Paula Hannaford-Agor, National Center for State CourtsFollow

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the legal and practical issues associ­ated with interstate guardianships--that is, those guardianships in which the ward has ties to more than one state. Part I addresses these issues in the context of jurisdictional questions, securing nec­essary information, judicial monitoring and enforcement of guardi­anship orders, and property management. Part II proposes some modest solutions to these problems, many borrowed from other ar­eas of law (e.g., child support enforcement, child custody determinations, enforcement of civil protection orders, involuntary civil commitment).

This abstract has been taken from the authors' introduction.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1999

Publication Information

13 Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal 251-377 (1999)

Repository Citation

Daniel, Charlene D. and Hannaford-Agor, Paula, "Creating the 'Portable' Guardianship: Legal and Practical Implications of Probate Court Cooperation in Interstate Guardianship Cases" (1999). Faculty Publications. 2365.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2365