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July 2004
 Guardianships:
Collaboration Needed to
Protect Incapacitated
Elderly People
All states have laws requiring
courts to oversee guardianships, but court implementation varies.
Most require guardians to submit periodic reports but do not
specify court review of these reports. Interstate jurisdictional
issues sometimes arise when states do not recognize guardianships
originating in other states. Most courts responding to our survey
did not track the number of active guardianships, and few
indicated the number of incapacitated elderly people under
guardianship.
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