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AR Code § 28-66-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-109. Bond

 (1) Upon the appointment of a guardian, he shall execute and file a bond to be approved by the court in an amount not less than the estimated value of the personal estate and anticipated income of the ward during the ensuing year. The bond shall be in the form and be conditioned as required of guardians appointed under the general guardianship laws of this state. The court may from time to time require the guardian to file an additional bond.  (2) Where a bond is tendered by a guardian with personal sureties, there shall be at least two (2) such sureties, and they shall file with the court a certificate under oath which shall describe the property owned, both real and personal, and shall state that each is worth the sum named in the bond as the penalty thereof over and above all his debts and liabilities and the aggregate of other bonds on which he is principal or surety and exclusive of property exempt from execution. The court may require additional security or may require a corporate surety bond, the premium thereon to be paid from the ward's estate.
AR Code § 28-66-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-111. Penalty for failure to account

 If any guardian shall fail to file with the court any account as required by this chapter, or by an order of the court, when any account is due, or within thirty (30) days after citation issues as provided by law, or shall fail to furnish the United States Department of Veterans Affairs a true copy of any account, petition, or pleading as required by this chapter, or fail to disclose the payment of interest on any loan or debt, such failure may in the discretion of the court be ground for his removal.
AR Code § 28-66-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-112. Compensation of guardians

 Compensation payable to guardians shall be based upon services rendered and shall not exceed six percent (6%) of the amount of moneys received during the period covered by the account, provided that during any period in which benefits are not being paid for a ward, then compensation to guardians may instead be calculated on a basis not to exceed one percent (1%) of the market value of the estate of the ward per annum. In the event of extraordinary services by any guardian, the court, upon petition and hearing thereon may authorize reasonable additional compensation therefor. A copy of the petition and notice of hearing thereon shall be given the proper office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the manner provided in the case of hearing on a guardian's account or other pleading. No commission or compensation shall be allowed on the moneys or other assets received from a prior guardian nor upon the amount received from liquidation of loans or other investments.
AR Code § 28-66-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-113. Investments

 (a)  (1) A guardian shall invest the surplus funds of his or her ward's estate in securities or property as authorized under the laws of this state but only upon prior order of the court.  (2) However, a guardian may invest surplus funds without prior court authorization in:  (A) Direct unconditional interest-bearing obligations of this state or of the United States;  (B) Obligations where the interest and principal are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States;  (C) Bonds issued by a school district in this state;  (D) Notes, bonds, debentures, or other similar obligations issued by a federal land bank, a federal intermediate credit bank, a bank for a cooperative, or any other obligation issued under the Farm Credit Act of 1971, 12 U.S.C. § 2001 et seq., as it existed on January 1, 2019;  (E) Bonds issued by a national mortgage association;  (F)  (i) A certificate of deposit or another interest-bearing deposit account of a bank domiciled in this state that is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.  (ii) However, an investment in a certificate of deposit or an interest-bearing deposit account shall not exceed the amount insured; or    (G)  (i) Shares, share certificates, share accounts, or accounts of a:  (a) Building and loan association organized under the laws of this state;  (b) Federal savings and loan association domiciled in this state and insured by the Savings Association Insurance Fund; or  (c)  (1) Credit union in this state for eligible members that is insured by the National Credit Union Administration.  (2) Subdivision (a)(2)(G)(i)(c)(1) of this section does not expand the field of membership of a credit union.      (ii) However, an investment in shares, share certificates, share accounts, or accounts listed in subdivision (a)(2)(G)(i) of this section shall not exceed the amount insured.        (b) A signed duplicate or certified copy of the petition for authority to invest shall be furnished to the proper office of the Veterans' Administration and a notice of hearing shall be given to the office for a hearing on a guardian's account.  (c) If a guardian of the estate is a state or national bank or trust company authorized by provisions of §§ 28-69-201 — 28-69-204 to establish and maintain common trust funds, the guardian may invest the ward's funds without prior order of the court in:  (1) Participation in the common trust funds if they have been established and maintained by the guardian;  (2) Shares, securities or other interests of any open-end or closed-end management-type investment company or investment trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq., as it existed on January 1, 2015; or  (3) An exchange-traded fund listed on a national securities exchange.
AR Code § 28-66-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-114. Maintenance and support

 A guardian shall not apply any portion of the income or the estate for the support or maintenance of any person other than the ward, the spouse, and the minor children of the ward, except upon petition to and prior order of the court after a hearing. A signed duplicate or certified copy of said petition shall be furnished the proper office of the Veterans' Administration and notice of hearing thereon shall be given said office as provided in the case of hearing on a guardian's account or other pleading.
AR Code § 28-66-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-115. Purchase of home for ward

 (1) The court may authorize the purchase of the entire fee simple title to real estate in this state in which the guardian has no interest, but only as a home for the ward, or to protect his interest, or (if he is not a minor) as a home for his dependent family. Such purchase of real estate shall not be made except upon the entry of an order of the court after hearing upon verified petition. A copy of the petition shall be furnished the proper office of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and notice of hearing thereon shall be given said office as provided in the case of hearing on a guardian's account. As used in this subdivision (1), “no interest” means that a guardian should not even have a mortgage lien interest in the real estate purchased as a home for the ward.  (2) Before authorizing such investment, the court shall require written evidence of value and of title and of the advisability of acquiring such real estate. Title shall be taken in the ward's name. This section does not limit the right of the guardian on behalf of his ward to bid and to become the purchaser of real estate at a sale thereof pursuant to decree of foreclosure of lien held by or for the ward, or at a trustee's sale, to protect the ward's right in the property so foreclosed or sold; nor does it limit the right of the guardian, if such be necessary to protect the ward's interest and upon prior order of the court in which the guardianship is pending, to agree with cotenants of the ward for a partition in kind, or to purchase from cotenants the entire undivided interest held by them, or to bid and purchase the same at a sale under a partition decree, or to compromise adverse claims of title to the ward's realty.
AR Code § 28-66-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-116. Copies of public records to be furnished

 When a copy of any public record is required by the Veterans' Administration to be used in determining the eligibility of any person to participate in benefits made available by the Veterans' Administration, the official custodian of such public record shall without charge provide the applicant for such benefits or any person acting on his behalf or the authorized representative of the Veterans' Administration with a certified copy of such record.
AR Code § 28-66-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-117. Discharge of guardian and release of sureties

 In addition to any other provisions of law relating to judicial restoration and discharge of guardian, a certificate by the Veterans' Administration showing that a minor ward has attained majority, or that an incompetent ward has been rated competent by the Veterans' Administration upon examination in accordance with law shall be prima facie evidence that the ward has attained majority, or has recovered his competency. Upon hearing after notice as provided by this chapter and the determination by the court that the ward has attained majority or has recovered his competency, an order shall be entered to that effect, and the guardian shall file a final account. Upon hearing after notice to the former ward and to the Veterans' Administration, as in case of other accounts, upon approval of the final account, and upon delivery to the ward of the assets due him from the guardian, the guardian shall be discharged and his sureties released.
AR Code § 28-66-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-119. Liberal construction

 This chapter shall be so construed to make uniform the law of these states which enact it.
AR Code § 28-66-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-120. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act.”
AR Code § 28-66-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-121. Severability

 If any provision of this chapter or application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
AR Code § 28-66-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-122. Modification of prior laws

 All acts or parts of acts relating to beneficiaries of the Veterans' Administration inconsistent with this chapter are hereby repealed, especially §§ 6318 to 6337 inclusive of Pope's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, and Act 283 of 1941. Except where inconsistent with this chapter, the laws of this state relating to guardian and ward and the judicial practice relating thereto, including the right to trial by jury and the right of appeal, shall be applicable to such beneficiaries and their estates.
AR Code § 28-66-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-123. Application of chapter

 The provisions of this chapter relating to surety bonds and the administration of estates of wards shall apply to all “income” and “estate” as defined in § 28-66-101 whether the guardian shall have been appointed under this chapter or under any other law of this state, special or general, prior or subsequent to the enactment hereof.
AR Code § 28-66-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act|§ 28-66-124. Time of taking effect

 This chapter shall take effect from and after June 10, 1943.
AR Code § 28-67-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-101. Chapter cumulative

 The provisions of this chapter shall be cumulative to the Probate Code. Nothing in this chapter shall amend or repeal related statutes pertaining to the appointment of guardians of the estate of incompetents.
AR Code § 28-67-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-102. Jurisdiction of the court

 (a) All laws relative to the jurisdiction of the circuit court over the estate of a person under guardianship as an incompetent person, including the investment, management, sale, or mortgage of his or her property and the payment of his or her debts, shall be applicable to the estate of a person under conservatorship.  (b) Court jurisdiction for adult guardianship actions, excluding proceedings under the Adult Custody Maltreatment Act, § 9-20-101 et seq., and conservatorship actions that involve a party residing outside the state shall be determined under the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, § 28-74-101 et seq.  (c) The appropriate jurisdiction for an adult guardianship action under the Adult Custody Maltreatment Act, § 9-20-101 et seq., that involves a maltreated adult residing outside the state shall be determined under the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, § 28-74-101 et seq.
AR Code § 28-67-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-103. Petition for appointment

 A hearing may be had upon a petition for appointment of a conservator when:   (1) It is represented to the circuit court, upon verified petition of any person or any relative or friend, that a person is an inhabitant or resident of the county and by reason of advanced age or physical disability is unable to manage his or her property; and  (2) The person, if not himself or herself the petitioner, voluntarily consents to the granting of the petition and, if able to attend, is produced before the court at the hearing.
AR Code § 28-67-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-104. Notice of hearing

 Notice of a hearing in a conservatorship proceeding shall be served upon the following who do not appear or in writing waive notice of hearing:   (1) The spouse, if any, of the person in question;  (2) If there is no known spouse, at least one (1) of the nearest competent relatives by blood or marriage of the person in question; and  (3) Any other person designated by the court.
AR Code § 28-67-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-105. Appointment

 If, after a full hearing and examination upon the petition, it appears to the circuit court that the person in question is by reason of advanced age or physical disability unable to manage his or her property, the circuit court may appoint a conservator of his or her estate.
AR Code § 28-67-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-106. Persons ineligible as conservator

 No person shall be appointed conservator of an estate who would be ineligible to act as guardian of the ward in such a case.
AR Code § 28-67-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-107. Management of estate — Bond

 (a) Every conservator appointed as provided in this chapter shall have the care, custody, and management of the estate of his or her ward until he or she is legally discharged.  (b) He or she must give bond to the State of Arkansas in like manner and with like conditions as provided for guardians of incompetent persons. However, the court may dispense with bond if the conservator is a bank or a trust company whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or a trust company chartered and regulated by appropriate state authority.
AR Code § 28-67-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-108. Powers and duties

 A conservator shall have the same powers and duties, except as to the custody of the person, as a guardian of an incompetent person.
AR Code § 28-67-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-109. Discharge

 (a) A conservator may be discharged by the court upon the application of the ward or, otherwise, upon such notice to the conservator and next of kin of the ward as the court may determine reasonable and proper when it appears that the conservatorship is no longer necessary.  (b) In the event of death, resignation, or removal of a conservator, the court, on the application of the former ward and upon such notice to the next of kin of the ward as the court may order, may certify that the ward is discharged by operation of law if it appears that the conservatorship of the ward is no longer necessary.
AR Code § 28-67-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-110. Compensation

 The conservator shall receive as compensation for his or her services the compensation provided by law for guardians.
AR Code § 28-67-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 67 - Conservators For The Aged And Disabled|§ 28-67-111. Subsequent appointment of guardian — Effect

 Any subsequent appointment of a guardian of the ward as an incompetent person shall be an appointment as guardian of the person, only, of the ward and shall not include the appointment of the guardian of the estate of the ward or in any manner affect the custody, management, and the handling of the estate of the ward by the conservator so long as the conservatorship proceedings are pending.
AR Code § 28-71-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 71 - Investment Of Trust Funds|§ 28-71-101. Fiduciaries' powers cumulative — Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act not affected

 (a) The powers granted by this chapter to the fiduciaries named in this chapter shall be in addition to the powers existing by virtue of other acts heretofore enacted authorizing investments by fiduciaries.  (b) This chapter shall not apply in any situation governed by the Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act, § 28-66-101 et seq.
AR Code § 28-71-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 71 - Investment Of Trust Funds|§ 28-71-102. Power of court not limited by chapter

 Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to limit the power of a court of competent jurisdiction to permit a fiduciary to take any action, or to restrain a fiduciary from taking any action, notwithstanding the permissions or restrictions contained in any written instrument under which the fiduciary is acting.
AR Code § 28-71-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 71 - Investment Of Trust Funds|§ 28-71-103. Fiduciaries subject to chapter

 Fiduciaries acting under authority granted before or after June 9, 1955, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
AR Code § 28-71-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships|Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships|Chapter 71 - Investment Of Trust Funds|§ 28-71-104. Additional authority to invest funds

 (a) Unless prohibited by will, deed, trust, court order, or other instrument establishing the fiduciary relationship or unless another mode of investment is prescribed by any such instrument, trustees, guardians, and personal representatives, in addition to methods of investment now authorized by law, may invest all funds held in trust or for investment as provided in this chapter.  (b) In addition to other investments authorized by law for the investment of funds held by a fiduciary, or by the instrument governing the fiduciary relationship, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, a bank or trust company acting as a fiduciary, agent, or otherwise may, in the exercise of its investment discretion or at the direction of another person authorized to direct investment of funds held by a bank or trust company as fiduciary, invest and reinvest in the securities of an open-end or closed-end management investment company or investment trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq., as amended, so long as the portfolio of the investment company or investment trust consists substantially of investments not prohibited by the governing instrument.  (c) The fact that such a bank or trust company or an affiliate of the bank or trust company provides services to the investment company or investment trust such as that of an investment advisor, custodian, transfer agent, registrar, sponsor, distributor, manager, or otherwise and is receiving reasonable compensation for those services shall not preclude the bank or trust company from investing or reinvesting in the securities of the open-end or closed-end management investment trust registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq., as amended.