Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 29. GUARDIAN AND WARD · Chapter 5. CONSERVATORS OF ADULTS · Article 13. FOREIGN CONSERVATORS · Part 4. FOREIGN CONSERVATORSHIPS
29-5-139. Interested parties’ right to compel foreign conservator to act with equity and good conscience; court’s communication with appointing foreign court.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
Any resident of this state who is interested as a creditor, heir, putative heir, or will beneficiary of a ward for whom a foreign conservator has been appointed may apply to the proper court to compel the foreign conservator to protect that interest according to equity and good conscience before selling the ward’s assets or removing the ward’s assets beyond the limits of this state.#
- (b)
With respect to a conservatorship order from another state that has been registered with and recorded by a court of this state under Code Section 29-11-31, in addition to any action such court of this state may take under this part or under subsection (b) of Code Section 29-11-32, such court of this state may communicate with the appointing court in such other state under subsection (a) of Code Section 29-11-4 to inform such appointing court of the application to compel such foreign conservator to protect an interest under subsection (a) of this Code section, stating the reasons therefor.#
History
Code 1981, § 29-5-139, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 161, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 693, § 23/HB 70.
Amendments
The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a), and, in subsection (a), inserted “putative heir,” near the middle, substituted “for whom a foreign conservator has been appointed” for “whom a foreign conservator represents” in the middle; and added subsection (b).
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t27-t30-(v22)-pdf.pdf, Volume V22, 2018 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 229 to 230; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b54071b79715.