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12 DE Code § 3863. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 38. Treatment of Delaware Statutory Trusts|Subchapter II. Foreign Statutory Trusts|§ 3863. Activities not constituting doing business.

§ 3863. Activities not constituting doing business. (a) Activities of a foreign statutory trust in the State of Delaware that do not constitute doing business for the purpose of this chapter include:  (1) Maintaining, defending or settling an action or proceeding; (2) Holding meetings of its beneficial owners or trustees or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange or registration of the statutory trust's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities; (5) Selling through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside the State of Delaware before they become contracts; (7) Selling, by contract consummated outside the State of Delaware, and agreeing, by the contract, to deliver into the State of Delaware, machinery, plants or equipment, the construction, erection or installation of which within the State of Delaware requires the supervision of technical engineers or skilled employees performing services not generally available, and as part of the contract of sale agreeing to furnish such services, and such services only, to the vendee at the time of construction, erection or installation; (8) Creating, as borrower or lender, or acquiring indebtedness with or without a mortgage or other security interest in property; (9) Collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting and maintaining property so acquired; (10) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not 1 in the course of similar transactions; (11) Doing business in interstate commerce; and (12) Doing business in the State of Delaware as an insurance company. (b) A person shall not be deemed to be doing business in the State of Delaware solely by reason of being a beneficial owner or trustee of a domestic statutory trust or a foreign statutory trust. (c) This section does not apply in determining whether a foreign statutory trust is subject to service or process, taxation or regulation under any other law of the State of Delaware. 75 Del. Laws, c. 418, §  20;
12 DE Code § 3902. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3902. Appointment of guardian; choice by minor over 14 years of age; guardian ad litem.

§ 3902. Appointment of guardian; choice by minor over 14 years of age; guardian ad litem. (a) Except in accordance with § 925(15) of Title 10 and § 3904 of this title, no person shall have any right or authority as guardian of a person with a disability unless the person has been duly appointed by the Court of Chancery or admitted by a court of law or equity to defend a suit as guardian ad litem. (b) The sole surviving parent of a minor child may, by written declaration or last will, name a guardian of the person or property or both of the parent's child, who shall be appointed if there is no just cause to the contrary. Any parent may by written declaration or will name a guardian as to the property which the parent's child may inherit from any person, who shall be appointed if there is no just cause to the contrary. (c) When there is no designation of guardian by written declaration or last will of the minor's sole surviving parent, or there is just cause for not appointing the guardian so designated, a minor 14 years of age or over and resident in this State may choose a guardian and the Court, if there is no just cause to the contrary, shall appoint the person chosen. (d) When there is no designation of guardian by written declaration or last will of the minor's sole surviving parent, or there is just cause for not appointing the guardian so designated, and a minor is under the age of 14 years, or is resident out of the State or neglects to choose a proper guardian, the Court may appoint a guardian according to its discretion. (e) When a guardian is appointed for a minor under 14 years of age, unless such appointment is according to a written declaration or the last will of a minor's sole surviving parent, if the minor, after arriving at the age of 14 years, chooses another person for a guardian, the Court shall appoint the person so chosen, if there is no just cause to the contrary and the preceding guardianship shall be thereby superseded. Code 1852, §§  1489-1491, 1959-1963;  19 Del. Laws, c. 257, §  1;  22 Del. Laws, c. 452, §  1;  Code 1915, §§  3089, 3914, 3916;  33 Del. Laws, c. 231, §  1;  Code 1935, §§  3579, 4422, 4422B, 4424;  48 Del. Laws, c. 222, §  1;  48 Del. Laws, c. 365, §  1;  12 Del. C. 1953, §§  3902, 3914;  50 Del. Laws, c. 191, §  1;  51 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  1;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  59 Del. Laws, c. 579, §§  1-8;  60 Del. Laws, c. 570, §§  1-8;  63 Del. Laws, c. 89, §  1;  64 Del. Laws, c. 245, §  1;  64 Del. Laws, c. 351, §  1;  66 Del. Laws, c. 112;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  92;
12 DE Code § 3903. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3903. Separate guardian of the person and property.

§ 3903. Separate guardian of the person and property. The Court of Chancery may appoint 2 or more persons as guardians of the person with a disability, 1 or more to have the care of the person of the person with a disability and the other or others to have possession and management of the property of the person with a disability with all the rights and powers and subject to all the duties respecting the property of the person with a disability, or the Court may appoint 1 person guardian with all the rights and powers and subject to all the duties respecting both the person and property of the person with a disability. Code 1852, §§  1492-1494;  Code 1915, §  3090;  30 Del. Laws, c. 202, §  1;  Code 1935, §  3580;  43 Del. Laws, c. 208, §  1;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3903;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  93;
12 DE Code § 3904. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3904. Foreign guardians of nonresidents.

§ 3904. Foreign guardians of nonresidents. (a) A guardian, conservator, committee or other similar fiduciary, appointed by an appropriate court of another jurisdiction to manage the property of a person with a disability may, subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, exercise in this State all powers of office, including the power to sell, purchase or mortgage real estate in the State; collect, receipt for and take possession of money due, tangible personal property or an instrument evidencing a debt, obligation, stock or chose in action located in this State and remove it to the other jurisdiction. (b) A guardian of the person, or other like fiduciary, appointed by an appropriate court of another jurisdiction to care for the person of a person with a disability, whenever such person with a disability is brought into the State for care and maintenance, such foreign fiduciary may, subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, exercise all powers granted by the other jurisdiction for the care and protection of the person of such nonresident person with a disability. (c) A foreign guardian shall not be entitled to exercise the powers set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section until the foreign guardian has filed for record in the Office of the Register in Chancery in any county of this State a certificate of the guardian's appointment from the other jurisdiction. Upon filing the certificate of appointment, the guardian will be authorized to petition the Court of Chancery of this State pursuant to court Ch. Ct. R. 178 to exercise powers not granted by subchapter II of this chapter upon the giving of such security as the Court of Chancery of this State may order. Upon authorization, such foreign fiduciary shall account to the Court at such times as would a fiduciary for a resident of this State appointed under this chapter, and in the case of guardians of the property shall be issued a certificate in accordance with § 3901 of this title. (d) Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the Court of Chancery of this State that the person with a disability is then a nonresident and the property in this State belonging to any such nonresident person with a disability has been removed to the state wherein such fiduciary was duly appointed and has been accounted for by the fiduciary according to the laws of the state wherein such fiduciary was duly appointed, the Court of Chancery may relieve such fiduciary from further accounting before the Court. Code 1852, §§  1489-1491;  Code 1915, §  3089;  Code 1935, §  3579;  48 Del. Laws, c. 222, §  1;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3912;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §§  3, 5;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  76 Del. Laws, c. 380, §§  3, 4;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  94;
12 DE Code § 3905. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3905. Guardian's bond; requirement; form and entry.

§ 3905. Guardian's bond; requirement; form and entry. (a) Every person appointed guardian shall, unless bond and/or surety is dispensed with by the Court, become bound, with surety, to the person with a disability in a penal sum to be fixed by the Court, by a joint and several obligation, to be, with the security, approved by the Court, with condition that if the guardian or the guardian's executors or administrators duly renders according to law just and true accounts of the guardianship and if the guardian, or the guardian's executors or administrators, upon the termination of the guardianship, shall deliver and pay to the person with a disability, or the executors or administrators of the person with a disability all the property belonging to the person with a disability in the possession of the guardian and all that shall be due to the person with a disability from the guardian and, if the guardian shall have in all things faithfully performed and fulfilled the guardian's duties as guardian, then the obligation shall be void. (b) Unless bond shall be dispensed with by the Court, no certificate of guardianship shall be issued by the Register in Chancery until such bond conforming to the order of court is given and added to the guardianship docket. (c) The Court may, at any time for good cause, waive the requirements of bond and/or surety, or reduce surety in any case where bond is required. (d) In all cases where a public agency is the petitioner and where, in the opinion of the Court of Chancery, the resources and estate of the person for whose property a guardian is sought are insufficient to warrant the payment of costs and fees, the Court of Chancery may by order provide that the guardian so appointed need not give bond either with or without surety as otherwise required by law and may further provide that in such cases all costs and fees shall be waived. Code 1852, §§  1964, 1965;  Code 1915, §  3917;  Code 1935, §  4425;  43 Del. Laws, c. 228, §  2;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3907;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  5;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  95;
12 DE Code § 3906. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3906. Guardian's bond; additional security; removal for noncompliance.

§ 3906. Guardian's bond; additional security; removal for noncompliance. If it appears in any case that the guardian's bond is insufficient, the Court of Chancery shall order the guardian to give further security and, if such order is not complied with, shall remove the guardian from office. Further security shall be taken in the same form as original security. Code 1852, §§  1966, 1967;  Code 1915, §  3918;  Code 1935, §  4426;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3908;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;
12 DE Code § 3907. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3907. Counter security upon petition of surety.

§ 3907. Counter security upon petition of surety. The Court of Chancery shall, on the petition of the surety of an executor, administrator or guardian, and proof that the executor, administrator or guardian is in danger of suffering injury or loss from such suretyship, order such executor, administrator or guardian to give the petitioner sufficient counter security to be approved by the Court and if neglecting to obey such order, the Court may remove the executor, administrator or guardian from office and order the executor, administrator or guardian to pay and deliver all the money, effects and estate in the executor's, administrator's, or guardian's hands as such executor, administrator or guardian to another guardian or to a receiver appointed by the Court and may enforce obedience to such order. Code 1852, §  1969;  Code 1915, §  3920;  Code 1935, §  4428;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3909;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;
12 DE Code § 3908. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3908. Removal, resignation or death of guardian.

§ 3908. Removal, resignation or death of guardian. (a) The Court of Chancery may remove a guardian for any sufficient cause. A guardian may, on petition, be allowed to resign when it appears to the Court proper to allow the same. On every such removal or resignation and also on the death of any guardian the Court may appoint a successor guardian. (b) The Court shall direct the guardian so resigning or removed to render a full account of the guardianship before the Court and may order the guardian to pay and deliver all the money, effects and estate in the guardian's hands as such guardian to the guardian's successor or to a receiver appointed by the Court, to the former person with a disability, or to the guardian's personal representative and may enforce such orders. The Court may also order suit to be brought on the guardian's bond, which suit may be prosecuted in the name of the person with a disability by next friend or guardian and it shall in no way affect or impair the right of excepting to the guardian's accounts. Code 1852, §  1968;  22 Del. Laws, c. 451, §  2;  Code 1915, §  3919;  Code 1935, §  4427;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3910;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§  96, 97;
12 DE Code § 3909. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3909. Term of guardianship.

§ 3909. Term of guardianship. (a) If the only allegation of disability in the petition for appointment of a guardian was that the person was a minor, unless terminated earlier by the Court upon application of the guardian, the minor or other interested party, or by the death of the minor, the guardianship of such minor shall terminate automatically when the minor attains the age of 18 years. (b) The automatic termination of the guardianship of the property of any minor shall not relieve the guardian of any duty to account. The guardian may be released by the Court of Chancery upon application of the guardian or the former minor. (c) The guardianship of the person or property, or both, of any person with a disability for reasons other than minority shall continue until 1 of the following occur:  (1) The death of the person with a disability. (2) Termination by the Court of Chancery upon application of the guardian, the person with a disability, or another interested party.Code 1852, §§  1959, 1960;  19 Del. Laws, c. 257, §  1;  22 Del. Laws, c. 451, §  1;  Code 1915, §  3914;  Code 1935, §  4422;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3911;  58 Del. Laws, c. 511, §  67;  64 Del. Laws, c. 185, §  1;  65 Del. Laws, c. 337, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§  98, 99;  82 Del. Laws, c. 90, § 2;
12 DE Code § 3910. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter I. Appointment, Bond and Tenure of Guardian|§ 3910. Receiver for property of minor; appointment, powers, accounting and bond.

§ 3910. Receiver for property of minor; appointment, powers, accounting and bond. (a) If a minor has real or personal property and no guardian, the Court of Chancery may appoint a receiver to take charge of such property during its pleasure and may make such regulations touching this matter, as are deemed proper. The Court may enforce any order made upon a receiver. (b) The receiver shall be required to account annually or oftener and shall deposit any balance, appearing in the receiver's hands, to be invested or otherwise disposed of for the minor's benefit. (c) A receiver, appointed under this section, shall become bound, with sufficient surety, to the State in a joint and several obligation, to be approved by the Court, with condition, in substance, to account for all money, effects and estate which shall come to the receiver's hands pursuant to the receiver's appointment and to pay and deliver the same as the Court orders and to well and faithfully execute the trusts and duties of the office of receiver. Code 1852, §§  1970, 1986, 1987;  Code 1915, §§  3921, 3933;  Code 1935, §§  4429, 4440;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3913;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;
12 DE Code § 3921. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter II. Powers and Duties of Guardian|§ 3921. Powers and duties of guardian; general.

§ 3921. Powers and duties of guardian; general. (a) A guardian shall have either the care of the person or the possession and management of all the property of the person with a disability or both the care of the person and the possession and management of the property, except to the extent the Court of Chancery may otherwise direct. (b) Every guardian of the property shall file with the Court within 30 days after appointment a verified inventory of the property of the person with a disability with respect to which the guardian acts. Said inventory shall include the fair market value of all property of which the guardian has knowledge after diligent inquiry. If, after filing an inventory, a guardian shall acquire or discover other such property not described therein, except property received from the executor to be paid by a trustee pursuant to § 3525 [repealed] of this title, the guardian shall file a verified supplemental inventory describing such property within 30 days after acquiring or discovering such property. (c) The guardian of the property shall, in the name of the person with a disability, do whatever is necessary for the care, preservation and increase of the property of the person with a disability, and shall invest the property in accordance with Chapter 33 of this title, unless investments are restricted by the Court. (d) The guardian may petition the Court for instructions concerning the guardian's fiduciary responsibility. (e) The guardian may employ, retain or consult accountants, investment counsel, attorneys-at-law and other professional advisers and pay their reasonable fees and expenses. Code 1852, §§  1492-1494;  Code 1915, §  3090;  30 Del. Laws, c. 202, §  1;  Code 1935, §  80;  43 Del. Laws, c. 208, §  1;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3921;  56 Del. Laws, c. 321;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  100;
12 DE Code § 3924. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter II. Powers and Duties of Guardian|§ 3924. Estoppel to dispute the right to property of a person with a disability.

§ 3924. Estoppel to dispute the right to property of a person with a disability. Neither a guardian nor the representatives of the guardian shall dispute the right to property of a person with a disability which comes to the guardian's possession, unless such property has been recovered from the guardian or there is a personal action pending on account of it. Code 1852, §§  1492-1494;  Code 1915, §  3090;  30 Del. Laws, c. 202, §  1;  Code 1935, §  3580;  43 Del. Laws, c. 208, §  1;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3922;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  70 Del Laws, c. 186,, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§  102, 103;
12 DE Code § 3925. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter II. Powers and Duties of Guardian|§ 3925. Transfer by guardian of corporate securities.

§ 3925. Transfer by guardian of corporate securities. Upon the transfer by a guardian of a person with a disability of the stocks, bonds or other securities of any corporation, the certificate of the Register in Chancery in which such guardian was appointed, or other proper public official, shall be sufficient authority to the officers of such corporation to transfer or reissue such stocks, bonds or other securities to such person as such guardian may in writing direct. 20 Del. Laws, c. 115, §  5;  Code 1915, §  3098;  Code 1935, §  3588;  12 Del. C. 1953, §  3926;  57 Del. Laws, c. 402, §  5;  69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  104;
12 DE Code § 3926. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations|Chapter 39. Guardianship|Subchapter II. Powers and Duties of Guardian|§ 3926. Exercise of rights belonging to a person with a disability.

§ 3926. Exercise of rights belonging to a person with a disability. No person dealing with the receiver of a minor or with a guardian of a person with a disability shall be entitled to rely on the authority of such receiver or guardian to:  (1) Release claims; (2) Settle tort claims; or (3) Convey title to real property without prior court approval of such act.69 Del. Laws, c. 109, §  2;  78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§  105, 106;