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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 29. GUARDIAN AND WARD · Chapter 8. COUNTY GUARDIANS

29-8-3. Letters of guardianship or conservatorship; liability and rights of county guardian.

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  1. The court shall grant to the county guardian separate letters of guardianship and to the county conservator separate letters of conservatorship upon each appointment. The county guardian and county conservator shall be subject to all liabilities and entitled to all the rights and emoluments provided for other guardians or conservators, respectively, and shall be governed by the law provided for other guardians or conservators, respectively.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 29-8-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 161, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 713, § 10/SB 98, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, substituted “and to the county conservator separate letters of” for “or” in the first sentence; and, in the second sentence, inserted “and county conservator”, “, respectively,”, and “, respectively”.

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Text read from t27-t30-(v22)-pdf.pdf, Volume V22, 2018 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 232 to 233; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b54071b79715.

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