Description:

Court-appointed guardianship is meant to provide decisional support for an adult who needs help. The help may be temporary or long term. It may focus on certain types of decisions such as managing money. Or, it may encompass all the decisions associated with the person’s life.

In this presentation, Dr. Heather Connors, Executive Director, The Center for Guardianship Excellence explains the many variations in guardianship that make it so confusing. Using three case stories Dr. Connors helps us understand when guardianship makes sense, what guardians are expected to do, and how guardianships can go wrong.

Topics include:

1. Key terms associated with legal guardianship and what it all means
2. How someone becomes a guardian
3. How guardianship differs from parenting and the common mistakes that are made
4. The ethics and rules designed to preserve the rights of adults with guardians
5. How to end a guardianship when the adult no longer needs decisional support