Legal qualification, competency, power, or fitness. Ability to understand the nature of
the effects of one's
acts.
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Capacity
,A person who is appointed by the court to exercise all delegable legal rights and
powers of the
ward after the court has found the ward lacks the capacity to perform all of the tasks
necessary to
care for his or her person or property.
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Plenary Guardian
The legal process of resolving a dispute; the process of judicially deciding a case.
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Adjudication
A guardian whose authority is temporary and usually only appointed in an emergency.
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Emergency/Temporary Guardian
One who, having legal title to property, holds it in trust for the benefit of another and
owes a fiduciary duty
to that beneficiary. Generally a trustee's duties are to convert to cash all debts and
securities that are not
qualified legal investments, to re-invest the cash in proper securities, to protect and
, preserve the trust
property, and to ensure that it is employed solely for the beneficiary in accordance
with the directions
contained in the trust instrument.
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Trustee
Includes abortion, removal of life support, sterilization, experimental treatment and
other controversial
medical issues
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Extraordinary Medical Circumstance
A governmental body consisting of one or more judges who sit to adjudicate disputes
and administer
justice.
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Court
The state or condition of a person who lacks the means of subsistence; extreme
hardship or neediness;
poverty.
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