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NH Rev Stat § 464-A:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:4-a - Nomination of Guardian for Incapacitated Persons for Whom Activated Member of the Armed Services is Guardian.

    464-A:4-a Nomination of Guardian for Incapacitated Persons for Whom Activated Member of the Armed Services is Guardian. –||I. Any member of the United States armed services, whether a member of an active component, reserve component, or national guard unit of the army, air force, navy, marines, or coast guard who is ordered to active duty outside of the state of New Hampshire with the armed forces of the United States or state militia of any state and who is the guardian of an incapacitated person may nominate a successor guardian of the person with the same powers and duties of a guardian of the person under RSA 464-A:25.||II. The document nominating the guardian shall have the effect of an order appointing a temporary guardian under RSA 464-A:12, except that it shall expire 7 days after activation or when a guardianship has been granted by the court, whichever is sooner. Upon activation, the individual nominated guardian shall petition for appointment of a guardian of the person within 7 days in the county where the original guardianship was granted. The petitioner shall append to the petition copies of the nomination document and the member's activation orders. The petition for appointment of a guardian shall be processed, heard, and adjudicated in the same manner as other guardianships filed under this chapter. All fees for the filing of the petition for the appointment of a guardian under this section shall be waived.||III. Nomination of a guardian of the person by an activated member of the armed services shall be made by using a properly executed nomination document to which a certified copy of the existing guardianship order shall be attached. The document nominating the guardian shall contain the following:||(a) Name and address of the armed forces member.||(b) Name and address of the person nominated the guardian.||(c) Name and address of the ward.||(d) The following language:||Know all persons that I __________, currently residing at __________, by this document do consent to the appointment of __________, whose address is __________, as the successor guardian of __________, thereby waiving notice of the petition. This document shall grant the person nominated the same powers and duties of a guardian of the person under RSA 464-A:25 for 7 days from the date of my activation or until the probate court grants a guardianship, whichever is sooner. A copy of my activation orders must accompany this document for it to be valid.||IV. The legal guardian's signature shall be witnessed by a third party and the signatures of the witness and legal guardian shall be acknowledged by a notary public.||V. Upon receipt of a petition to terminate a substitute guardianship created under this section filed by the service member, the court shall terminate the substitute guardianship.|||Source. 2002, 239:3, eff. May 17, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:6 - Right to Counsel.

    464-A:6 Right to Counsel. –||I. The right to legal counsel for any person for whom a temporary guardian or guardianship of the person and estate, or person, or estate, is sought shall be absolute and unconditional. If the proposed ward does not have his or her own counsel, the court shall appoint counsel for the proposed ward immediately upon the filing of a petition for guardianship of the person and estate, or the person, or estate. The judicial council shall pay the cost of such appointment, including counsel and investigative, expert, or other services and expenses necessary to provide adequate representation, from funds appropriated for indigent defense pursuant to RSA 604-A. Prior to obtaining investigative, expert, and other services necessary to provide adequate representation, counsel shall apply to the court and, upon finding that such services are necessary and that the person is financially unable to obtain them, the court shall authorize counsel to obtain the necessary services on behalf of the person for whom temporary guardian or guardianship of the person and estate, or person or estate, is sought.||II. Appointed counsel shall inform the proposed ward that he or she shall be liable for attorney fees unless he or she is found indigent by the probate court. The appointed counsel for the proposed ward shall be compensated for his or her services at a rate as determined by the New Hampshire supreme court.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1981, 564:4, eff. Aug. 29, 1981. 2021, 207:2, Pt. V, Sec. 2, eff. Oct. 9, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:7 - Repealed by 1981, 564:23, eff. Aug. 29, 1981.

    464-A:7 Repealed by 1981, 564:23, eff. Aug. 29, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:10 - Who May be Guardian.

    464-A:10 Who May be Guardian. –||I. Any person who agrees to so serve may be appointed guardian of the person and estate, or the person, or the estate including:||(a) A family guardian or volunteer guardian;||(b) A professional guardian; or||(c) A public guardianship and protection program as described in RSA 547-B.||II. A bank having trust powers or a trust company may be appointed guardian of the estate.||III. An institution or agency providing care and custody of the incapacitated person may not be appointed guardian, unless no one else can be found to serve as guardian; then an employee of the institution or agency may be appointed guardian if he or she does not provide direct care to the proposed ward, provided that the court makes a specific finding that such appointment presents no substantial risk of a conflict of interest.||IV. (a) Any competent person may nominate one or more persons to be guardian of his or her person or estate, or both his or her person and estate, and one or more substitutes in case of a nominee's inability to serve by a written instrument, executed in accordance with the requirements of RSA 477:9, and may name in such instrument any persons, other than a public guardianship and protection program, the person wishes to exclude from consideration as guardian.||(b) Such nomination and exclusion shall continue until revoked, shall be effective for guardianships and temporary guardianships under RSA 464-A:12, and shall survive the subsequent mental or physical disability or incompetence of the signer.||(c) A qualified person nominated as guardian who is willing to serve shall be appointed unless the court finds that such person would not be able to carry out the reasonably foreseeable duties of a guardian in the particular circumstances.||(d) Under no circumstances shall the court appoint as guardian a person excluded from consideration by name in the instrument.||(e) This paragraph shall be construed to create a rebuttable presumption that the person nominated as guardian shall be so appointed.||(f) This paragraph shall not be construed to limit the ability of the court to remove any guardian appointed under this chapter.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1981, 564:6. 1983, 409:5. 1989, 235:1. 2009, 132:4, eff. Aug. 28, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:11 - Letters of Guardianship.

    464-A:11 Letters of Guardianship. –||I. A copy of the order appointing the guardian shall be given in hand or mailed by first class mail to the ward and the ward's counsel. The court may order service by other means if it deems appropriate. The order shall contain the name and address of the guardian. The order shall also contain notice of the ward's right to appeal the guardianship appointment and of his or her right to seek alteration or termination of the guardianship at any time.||II. Letters of guardianship shall contain:||(a) The name, address and telephone number of the guardian of the person and estate, or the person, or the estate;||(b) The name, address and telephone number of the ward;||(c) The nature and scope of the guardianship, whether over the person and estate, or the person, or the estate;||(d) The specific legal limitations imposed by the court on the powers of the guardian.||III. Said letters shall issue to the guardian. Copies shall be mailed to the ward, the ward's counsel, the petitioner, and the institution of residence of the ward and any other person, institution, organization or agency which the court deems that it is reasonable to notify under the circumstances of the guardianship.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1981, 564:7. 1995, 277:4, eff. Aug. 19, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:11-a - Extension of Guardianship.

    464-A:11-a Extension of Guardianship. –||A guardian or petitioner may seek an extension of a guardianship appointment by formally petitioning the court for a guardianship of the person and estate, the person, or estate within the period of any existing guardianship. Upon the filing of a petition for guardianship, a petition for an additional term of guardianship, a petition for an indefinite term of guardianship, or a petition for an amendment of the order or letters of guardianship to extend the term of the guardianship, the period of guardianship shall be extended until the issuance of the order of the probate court; provided that the probate court shall act upon the petition within 30 days of orders of notice being issued.|||Source. 1995, 212:2. 2005, 90:1, eff. Aug. 6, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:13 - Appointment of Conservators for Persons Incapable of Managing Own Affairs.

    464-A:13 Appointment of Conservators for Persons Incapable of Managing Own Affairs. –||I. When a person deems himself unfit by reasons of mental or physical disability for the prudent management of his property and financial affairs, he may apply to the probate court for the appointment of a conservator of his property.||II. The court shall, upon notice to the person to be protected and the person nominated as conservator, hold a hearing to determine that:||(a) The person has voluntarily applied for the appointment of a conservator;||(b) The person has voluntarily chosen the person nominated as conservator.||The person to be protected and the person nominated as the conservator shall be present at said hearing.||III. If the court has reason to question the voluntariness of the application of the person who seeks the appointment of a conservator or the voluntariness of a person to become conservator, the court shall appoint counsel for the person to be protected in the same manner as provided in RSA 464-A:6.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1981, 564:9, eff. Aug. 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:14 - Who Shall be Conservator.

    464-A:14 Who Shall be Conservator. –||If the court determines that the person to be protected has voluntarily applied for appointment of a conservator and has voluntarily nominated his conservator, the court may appoint the nominee as conservator for the person to be protected. If, for good cause shown at the hearing, the court determines that appointment of the proposed conservator is not in the best interests of the person to be protected, the court shall have the authority to nominate another person as conservator and, with the approval of the person to be protected, appoint said person as conservator.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:15 - Bond; Notice.

    464-A:15 Bond;  Notice. –||Such conservator shall give bond to the judge of probate, with sufficient sureties, give notice of his appointment as guardians are required to do and be subject to all provisions of law now in force as to guardians as far as they apply to estates of their wards, pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that the court need not, but may appoint an attorney or other suitable person to review an account of a conservator and to represent the interests of the protected person.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1981, 564:10, eff. Aug. 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:16 - Termination of Conservatorship.

    464-A:16 Termination of Conservatorship. –||At any time upon petition signed by the protected person, the court shall direct the termination of the conservatorship and the transfer of all property held thereunder to the protected person. Likewise, if at any time subsequent to the appointment of a conservator it shall appear that the protected person has died and an executor or administrator has been appointed for his or her estate, the court shall direct the termination of the conservatorship and the transfer of all property of the deceased person held thereunder to such executor or administrator.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:17 - Appointment for Absentees.

    464-A:17 Appointment for Absentees. –||Whenever an absentee has an interest in any form of property in this state or is a legal resident of this state and has not provided an adequate power of attorney authorizing another to act in his or her behalf in regard to such property or interest, then, the probate court of the county of such absentee's legal domicile or of the county where the property is located, either on the court's own motion or upon petition alleging the foregoing facts and showing the necessity for providing care of the property of such absentee made by any person who would have an interest in the property of the absentee were such absentee deceased, after notice to, or on receipt of proper waivers from, the heirs and next of kin of the absentee as provided by law for the administration of an estate, as well as notice by publication once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of such absentee's legal domicile or of the county where the property is located and, if in a different county, once in a newspaper of general circulation of the county where such absentee was last seen, and upon good cause being shown, may, after finding the facts to be as aforesaid, appoint a conservator to take charge of the absentee's estate, under the supervision and subject to the further orders of the court.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1992, 284:8, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:18 - Bond; Powers of Absentee Conservator.

    464-A:18 Bond;  Powers of Absentee Conservator. –||The court shall have full discretionary authority to appoint any suitable person as absentee conservator and may require such conservator to post an adequate surety bond and to make such reports as the court may deem necessary. The absentee conservator shall have the same powers and authority as the guardian of the property of a minor incapacitated person.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:19 - Termination of Absentee Conservatorship.

    464-A:19 Termination of Absentee Conservatorship. –||At any time upon petition signed by the absentee or on petition of an attorney-in-fact acting under an adequate power of attorney granted by the absentee, the court shall direct the termination of the conservatorship and the transfer of all property held thereunder to the absentee or to the designated attorney-in-fact. Likewise, if at any time subsequent to the appointment of a conservator it shall appear that the absentee has died or an executor or administrator has been appointed for his estate, the court shall direct the termination of the conservatorship and the transfer of all property of the deceased absentee held thereunder to such executor or administrator.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:21 - Bond.

    464-A:21 Bond. –||Upon appointment, the guardian of the person and estate, or the person, or the estate, shall give bond to the probate court, with sufficient sureties, in such sum as the judge shall approve. In the discretion of the judge of probate, a bond without sureties may be given if the gross value of the ward's estate does not exceed $10,000 or the guardianship is only of the person of an incapacitated person or a minor. Unless otherwise determined by the court, the bond must be in the amount of the aggregate capital value of the property of the estate in the guardian's control, plus one year's estimated income, and minus the value of securities or other assets deposited under arrangements requiring an order of the court for their removal and the value of any land which the fiduciary, by express limitation of power, lacks power to sell or convey without court authorization.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1995, 277:5, eff. Aug. 19, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:22 - Inventory.

    464-A:22 Inventory. –||When a guardian of the estate has been appointed, an inventory shall be made in the same manner and subject to the same requirements as inventories of the estates of persons deceased are made pursuant to RSA 554. An appraisal of all or any part of the ward's estate shall be made when ordered by the court.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:23 - Compensation.

    464-A:23 Compensation. –||Every guardian shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for all proper expenses and services in the discharge of the guardianship. Administrative expenses approved by the court, including but not limited to guardianship fees, legal fees, and appraisal costs shall be paid out of the estate of the ward as a priority over other debts and obligations of the ward to the extent that funds are available and the needs of the ward are being met. The balance of the account due to the guardian shall be a lien upon all of the estate of the ward, real and personal, not disposed of. After a person ceases to be guardian, he or she may maintain an action for the recovery of said money owed for expenses and services.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 2002, 48:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:24 - Agent.

    464-A:24 Agent. –||Every resident guardian who removes from the state, or who goes out of the state with intention of being absent more than a year, and every resident of another state who is appointed guardian within this state, shall forthwith appoint some person residing in the state as his agent to receive service of legal process against him as guardian. The appointment shall be made and renewed as in the case of agents of foreign administrators and with like authority and effect; and failure to appoint shall be cause for the removal of the guardian.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:27 - Sales and Purchase.

    464-A:27 Sales and Purchase. –||I. The judge of probate, upon petition of the guardian of the estate or of any other person interested in the estate of any ward, may license the guardian to sell, mortgage, pledge, lease or exchange any property of the guardianship estate, including goods and chattels, real estate, or wood and timber growing thereon, upon such terms as the judge may order, for the purpose of paying the ward's debts, providing for said ward's care, maintenance, rehabilitation, training or education and the care, maintenance and education of said ward's dependents, investing the proceeds, or for any other purpose which is in the best interest of the ward. The judge of probate may act on the petition without notice and hearing, if consents signed by all persons interested in the guardianship estate are filed with the petition. If such consents are not filed with the petition, the judge of probate may act on the petition only after notice and hearing.||II. No guardian shall purchase property of the ward, nor sell property of the guardian to the ward unless the price and manner of sale are approved by the probate court.||III. If the judge is not satisfied that the guardian has already given bond sufficient to ensure his or her prudent conduct in a sale and to account for the proceeds thereof, the judge shall, before issuing a license, require of the guardian a bond sufficient for that purpose.||IV. All sales shall be made within 2 years after the grant of the license.|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 1981, 564:12, eff. Aug. 29, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:28 - Oath.

    464-A:28 Oath. –||Before a license for the sale of any property of the ward shall be granted, the guardian shall take the following oath and file a certificate thereof in the office of the clerk:||"I, .........., guardian of the estate of .........., my ward, do solemnly swear that in disposing of the estate of my ward, for which I have applied for license, I will use my best care and judgment, exercise the prudence, intelligence and discretion which I would in the management of my own affairs and will act in the best interests of my ward so that the property shall be sold to the utmost advantage to my ward, without any self-interest whatever."|||Source. 1979, 370:1. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:29 - Conveyance.

    464-A:29 Conveyance. –||Every guardian so licensed and sworn, having advertised and sold as required by the license, may execute a valid conveyance of the estate sold to the purchaser.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 464-A:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIV - Guardians and Conservators|Title 464-A - Guardians and Conservators|Section 464-A:30 - Joinder of Spouse.

    464-A:30 Joinder of Spouse. –||The wife or husband of a person under guardianship may join with the guardian in a deed for the conveyance of any real estate of the ward, and thereby release and waive any homestead right.|||Source. 1979, 370:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|