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MI Comp L § 700.5425 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5425 - Distributive Duties and Powers of Conservator.

700.5425 Distributive duties and powers of conservator. Sec. 5425.  A conservator may expend or distribute estate income or principal without court authorization or confirmation for the support, education, care, or benefit of the protected individual or the protected individual's dependents in accordance with the following principles:  (a) The conservator shall consider a recommendation relating to the appropriate standard of support, education, and benefit for the protected individual or a dependent made by a parent or guardian, if any. The conservator shall not be surcharged for money paid to a person or organization furnishing support, education, or care to the protected individual or a dependent in compliance with the recommendation of the protected individual's parent or guardian unless the conservator knows that the parent or guardian derives personal financial benefit from that payment, including a benefit by relief from a personal duty of support, or that the recommendation is clearly not in the protected individual's best interests.  (b) The conservator shall expend or distribute money reasonably necessary for the support, education, care, or benefit of the protected individual or a dependent with due regard to all of the following:  (i) The estate size, the conservatorship's probable duration, and the likelihood that the protected individual, at some future time, may be fully able to be wholly self-sufficient and able to manage business affairs and the estate.  (ii) The accustomed standard of living of the protected individual and the dependents.  (iii) Other money or sources used for the protected individual's support.  (c) The conservator may expend estate money for the support of an individual legally dependent on the protected individual and others who are members of the protected individual's household who are unable to support themselves and who are in need of support.  (d) The conservator may pay money to be expended under this section to any person, including the protected individual, to reimburse for an expenditure that the conservator might have made or in advance for a service to be rendered to the protected individual, if it is reasonable to expect the service will be performed and an advance payment is customary or reasonably necessary under the circumstances.  (e) In discharging a responsibility conferred by court order or this part, a conservator shall implement the principles described in section 5407(1) to the extent possible. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5427 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5427 - Expansion or Limitation of Powers of Conservator.

700.5427 Expansion or limitation of powers of conservator. Sec. 5427.  Subject to the restrictions in section 5407(3), at the time of appointment or later, the court may confer on a conservator, in addition to the powers conferred by sections 5423 to 5426, any power that the court itself could exercise under section 5407(2)(b) and (c). At the time of appointment or later, the court may limit the powers of a conservator otherwise conferred by sections 5423 to 5426 or previously conferred by the court, and may at any time remove or modify a limitation. If the court limits a power conferred on the conservator by sections 5423 to 5426 or specifies, as provided in section 5419(1), that title to some, but not all, of the protected individual's property vests in the conservator, the limitation or specification of property subject to the conservatorship shall be endorsed upon the letters of appointment. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5428 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5428 - Preservation of Estate Plan; Right to Examine.

700.5428 Preservation of estate plan; right to examine. Sec. 5428.  (1) When doing any of the following, the conservator and the court shall take into account the protected individual's estate plan as known to them, including a will, a revocable trust of which the individual is settlor, and a contract, transfer, or joint ownership arrangement originated by the protected individual with provisions for payment or transfer of a benefit or interest at the individual's death to another or others:  (a) Investing the estate.  (b) Selecting estate property for distribution under section 5425 or 5426(1).  (c) Utilizing a power of revocation or withdrawal available for the protected individual's support and exercisable by the conservator or the court.  (2) The conservator may examine the protected individual's will. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5430 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5430 - Personal Liability of Conservator.

700.5430 Personal liability of conservator. Sec. 5430.  (1) Unless otherwise provided in the contract, a conservator is not individually liable on a contract properly entered into in a fiduciary capacity in the course of estate administration unless the conservator fails to reveal the representative capacity and identify the estate in the contract.  (2) A conservator is personally liable for an obligation arising from ownership or control of estate property or for torts committed in the course of estate administration only if personally at fault.  (3) A claim based on a contract entered into by a conservator in a fiduciary capacity, an obligation arising from ownership or control of the estate, or a tort committed in the course of estate administration may be asserted against the estate by proceeding against the conservator in the conservator's fiduciary capacity, whether or not the conservator is personally liable for the claim.  (4) A question of liability between the estate and the conservator personally may be determined in a proceeding for accounting, surcharge, indemnification, or other appropriate proceeding or action. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5431 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5431 - Termination of Proceeding.

700.5431 Termination of proceeding. Sec. 5431.  The protected individual, conservator, or another interested person may petition the court to terminate the conservatorship. A protected individual seeking termination is entitled to the same rights and procedures as in an original proceeding for a protective order. Upon determining, after notice and hearing, that the minority or disability of the protected individual has ceased, the court shall terminate the conservatorship. Upon termination, title to the estate property passes to the formerly protected individual or to successors subject to the provision in the order for expenses of administration and to directions for the conservator to execute appropriate instruments to evidence the transfer. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5432 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5432 - Payment of Debt and Delivery of Property to Foreign Conservator Without Local Proceedings.

700.5432 Payment of debt and delivery of property to foreign conservator without local proceedings. Sec. 5432.  (1) A person indebted to a protected individual or having possession of property or of an instrument evidencing a debt, stock, or chose in action belonging to a protected individual may pay or deliver the money, property, or instrument to a conservator, guardian of the estate, or other similar fiduciary appointed by a court of the protected individual's state of residence upon being presented with proof of appointment and a sworn statement made by or on behalf of the fiduciary stating both of the following:  (a) That no protective proceeding that relates to the protected individual is pending in this state.  (b) That the foreign fiduciary is entitled to payment or to receive delivery.  (2) If the person to whom the sworn statement is presented is not aware of a protective proceeding pending in this state, payment or delivery in response to the demand and sworn statement discharges the debtor or possessor. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5433 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-4 - Part 4 Protection of Property of an Individual Under Disability or of a Minor (700.5401...700.5433)|Section 700.5433 - Appointment of Conservator in Another State as Temporary Conservator.

700.5433 Appointment of conservator in another state as temporary conservator.Sec. 5433.  (1) If a conservator has not been appointed in this state and a petition in a protective proceeding is not pending in this state, a conservator appointed, qualified, and serving in good standing in another state may be appointed immediately as temporary conservator in this state on filing with a court in this state an application for appointment, an authenticated copy of letters of appointment in the other state, and an acceptance of appointment. Letters of conservatorship for the temporary conservator expire 28 days after the date of appointment.  (2) Within 14 days after appointment as temporary conservator under subsection (1), the conservator shall give notice to all interested persons of his or her appointment and the right to object to the appointment. On filing proof of service of the notice with the court, the temporary conservator shall be appointed full conservator and the court shall issue letters of conservatorship accordingly.  (3) If an objection is filed to a conservatorship under this section, the conservatorship continues unless a court in this state enters an order removing the conservator. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2012, Act 545, Imd. Eff. Jan. 2, 2013 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5502 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5502 - Durable Power of Attorney Not Affected by Lapse of Time, Disability, or Incapacity; Legal Description of Real Estate Not Required.

700.5502 Durable power of attorney not affected by lapse of time, disability, or incapacity; legal description of real estate not required. Sec. 5502.  An act done by an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney during a period of disability or incapacity of the principal has the same effect and inures to the benefit of and binds the principal and the principal's successors in interest as if the principal were competent and not disabled. Unless the instrument states a termination time, the power is exercisable notwithstanding the lapse of time since the execution of the instrument. A durable power of attorney that authorizes the agent to convey or otherwise exercise power over real estate does not need to contain the real estate's legal description. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5503 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5503 - Relation of Attorney in Fact to Court-Appointed Fiduciary.

700.5503 Relation of attorney in fact to court-appointed fiduciary. Sec. 5503.  (1) If, following execution of a durable power of attorney, a court of the principal's domicile appoints a conservator, estate guardian, or other fiduciary charged with the management of all of the principal's property or all of his or her property except specified exclusions, the attorney in fact is accountable to the fiduciary as well as to the principal. The fiduciary has the same power to revoke or amend the power of attorney that the principal would have had if he or she were not disabled or incapacitated.  (2) By a durable power of attorney, a principal may nominate the conservator, guardian of his or her estate, or guardian of his or her person for consideration by the court if a protective proceeding for the principal's person or estate is commenced after execution of the power of attorney. The court shall make its appointment in accordance with the principal's most recent nomination in a durable power of attorney except for good cause or disqualification. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5504 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5504 - Power of Attorney Not Revoked Until Notice.

700.5504 Power of attorney not revoked until notice. Sec. 5504.  (1) The death of a principal who has executed a written power of attorney, durable or otherwise, does not revoke or terminate the agency as to the attorney in fact or other person who, without actual knowledge of the principal's death, acts in good faith under the power. An action taken as provided in this subsection, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, binds the principal's successors in interest.  (2) The disability or incapacity of a principal who has previously executed a written power of attorney that is not a durable power does not revoke or terminate the agency as to the attorney in fact or other person who, without actual knowledge of the principal's disability or incapacity, acts in good faith under the power. An action taken as provided in this subsection, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, binds the principal and his or her successors in interest. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5505 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5505 - Proof of Continuance of Durable and Other Powers of Attorney by Affidavit.

700.5505 Proof of continuance of durable and other powers of attorney by affidavit. Sec. 5505.  (1) If an attorney in fact acts in good-faith reliance on a power of attorney, durable or otherwise, and executes a sworn statement stating that, at the time of the action, the attorney in fact did not have actual knowledge of the principal's death, disability, or incapacity or of the power's termination by revocation, the sworn statement is, in the absence of fraud, conclusive proof of the power's nontermination or nonrevocation.  (2) If the exercise of the power of attorney requires execution and delivery of an instrument that is recordable, the sworn statement when authenticated for record is also recordable.  (3) This section does not affect a provision in a power of attorney for its termination by expiration of time or occurrence of an event other than express revocation or a change in the principal's capacity. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5512 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5512 - Restrictions.

700.5512 Restrictions.Sec. 5512.  (1) A patient advocate cannot make a medical treatment decision under the authority of or under the process created by this section and sections 5506 to 5511 to withhold or withdraw treatment from a pregnant patient that would result in the pregnant patient's death.  (2) A health care provider shall not require a patient advocate designation to be executed as a condition of providing, withholding, or withdrawing care, custody, or medical or mental health treatment.  (3) A life or health insurer shall not do any of the following because of the execution or implementation of a patient advocate designation or because of the failure or refusal to execute or implement such a designation:  (a) Refuse to provide or continue coverage to the patient.  (b) Limit the amount of coverage available to a patient.  (c) Charge a patient a different rate.  (d) Consider the terms of an existing policy of life or health insurance to have been breached or modified.  (e) Invoke a suicide or intentional death exemption or exclusion in a policy covering the patient.  (4) A patient advocate designation shall not be construed to condone, allow, permit, authorize, or approve suicide or homicide.  (5) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), sections 5506 to 5515 only apply to or affect an individual who has executed a patient advocate designation or an individual acting for or on behalf of another individual who has executed a patient advocate designation.  (6) Nothing in sections 5506 to 5515 shall be considered to authorize or compel care, custody, or medical or mental health treatment decisions for a patient who objects on religious grounds.  (7) A designation executed before the effective date of this section with the intent of accomplishing a similar purpose as this section is valid but is subject to section 5506(1) and sections 5507 to 5515; must be in writing, signed, witnessed or notarized, dated, and executed voluntarily; and, before its implementation, must be made part of the patient's medical or, as applicable, mental health treatment record. History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 532, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5513 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5513 - Repealed. 2004, Act 532, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005.

700.5513 Repealed. 2004, Act 532, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005. Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to conflict with provision of mental health code.Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5515 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5515 - Revocation of Patient Advocate Designation; Waiver; Exercise of Power by Patient Advocate; Conditions.

700.5515 Revocation of patient advocate designation; waiver; exercise of power by patient advocate; conditions.Sec. 5515.  (1) A patient may waive the right to revoke a patient advocate designation as to the power to exercise mental health treatment decisions by making the waiver as part of the document containing the designation. However, mental health treatment provided to a patient who has communicated his or her intent to revoke a designation in which the patient has waived his or her right to revoke shall not continue for more than 30 consecutive days, and the waiver does not affect the patient's rights under section 419 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1419.  (2) A patient advocate may exercise the power to make mental health treatment decisions only if a physician and a mental health practitioner both certify, in writing and after examination of the patient, that the patient is unable to give informed consent to mental health treatment. The patient may, in the document containing the patient advocate designation, designate a physician, a mental health practitioner, or both, to make the determination under this subsection. If a physician or mental health practitioner designated by the patient is unable or unwilling to conduct the examination and make the determination required by this subsection within a reasonable time, the examination and determination shall be made by another physician or mental health practitioner, as applicable. History: Add. 2004, Act 532, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005 Popular Name: EPIC
MI Comp L § 700.5520 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 700 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code|Act 386 of 1998 - Estates and Protected Individuals Code (700.1101 - 700.8206)|Article V - Protection of an Individual Under Disability and His or Her Property (700.5101...700.5520)|386-1998-V-5 - Part 5 Durable Power of Attorney and Designation of Patient Advocate (700.5501...700.5520)|Section 700.5520 - Guardian Making Medical or Mental Health Decisions; Designation of Another Individual Prohibited.

700.5520 Guardian making medical or mental health decisions; designation of another individual prohibited.Sec. 5520.  A legally incapacitated individual who has a guardian with responsibility for making medical or mental health treatment decisions cannot then designate another individual to make medical or mental health treatment decisions for the legally incapacitated individual. History: Add. 2000, Act 312, Eff. Jan. 1, 2001 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 532, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005 Popular Name: EPIC