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A guardianship is established because of an individual’s inability to act on his or her own behalf.
It is a legal arrangement under which one person, the guardian, has the legal right and duty to care for another person (the ward) and the ward’s property. Guardianship is often over a child or an individual who has become incapacitated through age or disability
A guardian is someone who's chosen -- either by a court or by being named in a legal document such as a will -- to make decisions for someone (generally referred to as the "ward") who can't make decisions for him or herself.
The types of decisions that a guardian might make include:
The selection of a guardian is an extremely important task. People with ties to the ward are preferred as possible guardians by courts. These include:
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