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Under U.S. law, a conservatorship results from the appointment of a guardian or a protector by a judge to manage the personal or financial affairs of another person who is incapable of fully managing their own affairs due to age or physical or mental limitations. A person under conservatorship is a "conservatee", a term that can refer to an adult.
Conservator (female Conservatrix) may refer to: Conservator of a conservatorship, US court appointee to supervise financial affairs; Conservator (religion), to protect certain legal persons; Conservator-restorer, of objects of cultural heritage; Conservators who manage areas of countryside in England; Where transformer oil is stored
During a temporary LPS conservatorship, it is the general duty of the Public Guardian Office to ensure the conservatee is properly cared for and that the conservatee continues to require locked psychiatric care. During the LPS temporary conservatorship, it is indeed the Public Guardian, not the conservatee, who consents to treatment and placement.
Conservatorships have been at the center of the #FreeBritney movement and now Michael Oher's battle with the Tuohys. Legal experts explain. What is a conservatorship?
The new law, authored by Susan Eggman (D-Stockton), updates the definition for conservatorship to include people who are unable to provide for their personal safety or medical care due to severe ...
A conservatorship is a legal arrangement in which one or multiple guardians are appointed to make important decisions — often financial or health-related — for someone who is considered unable ...
The 18th century legal writer Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, in an 1820 legal dictionary, defines "conservator of the peace" as a person who until the creation of the justices of the peace by King Edward III, had "an especial charge to see the king's peace kept" either as incident to other offices or of itself. [1]
In a conservatorship, Fannie and Freddie have the implicit support of the US government and share its top credit ratings, allowing them to borrow money cheaply and lower mortgage rates for consumers.