The Right to Make Decisions for Someone You Love
Guardianship provides people with the legal right to make decisions for someone they love. Obtaining guardianship is a fairly straightforward process. However, unlike other matters that are typically considered aspects of family law, guardianship is handled in probate court.
At the law firm of Palmer & Manuel in Dallas, Texas, you will find lawyers with decades of experience handling family law and probate matters. Our experience stretches beyond the family courts and into the probate courts, allowing us to provide the same level of service and results in guardianship cases that we do in other family law matters.
Guardianship
Guardianship is typically used by parents or other relatives to obtain the legal right to make decisions for adults who are mentally or physically incapacitated. Guardianship of a minor is more rare and is typically reserved for children whose parents are deceased or incapacitated. Guardianship of a minor may also be obtained by grandparents or other relatives when the child's parents are deceased.
Guardianship may grant the guardian the right to make a variety of decisions, from financial decisions to decisions regarding medical treatments.
Conservatorship
Conservatorship is the legal description of child custody in Texas. It grants grandparents or other relatives the right to care for and make decisions for a child. This is typically used in cases in which the child's parents are unable to care for the child, either because they are in jail, in the military or simply missing.
Conservatorship grants the conservator the same decision-making rights that a parent has, from decisions regarding where a child will live to decisions regarding where a child will go to school.
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