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A court gives someone else legal authority to manage an adult's personal or financial decisions.
means A legal arrangement where a court appoints someone else to make financial and/or personal decisions for an adult judged unable to manage their own affairs.
from From Latin 'conservare' — to keep, preserve, save from loss — via 'conservator,' one who preserves or guards. The legal sense of a court-appointed guardian for a person or their estate developed in English law from this root; the '-ship' tacked on to name the office or condition itself. So the word's bones literally mean 'the state of being kept' — which is exactly the sting of it.
- britney case
- Made the term a pop-culture household word in 2021
- who's covered
- Elderly, disabled, or allegedly incapacitated adults
- exit difficulty
- Courts grant them easily, lift them rarely
- money control
- Conservator can manage assets, not just daily care