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- noun Plural form of
guardianship .
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Examples
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SPENCER: Well, there are a lot of things you have to take care of, such as guardianships being set up, how you're going to take care of these children.
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Baran in 1990 proposed a system of "guardianships," in which birthparents could reclaim kids.
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McNay founded Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, which assists attorneys as conservators and in setting up guardianships.
Don McNay: The PSA Exam and Watching My Father Die Needlessly Don McNay 2011
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McNay founded Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, which assists attorneys as conservators and in setting up guardianships.
Don McNay: The PSA Exam and Watching My Father Die Needlessly Don McNay 2011
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McNay founded Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, which assists attorneys as conservators and in setting up guardianships.
Don McNay: The PSA Exam and Watching My Father Die Needlessly Don McNay 2011
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While financial guardianships are a matter of state law and require court supervision in some states, trusts are a private matter.
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Almost a decade ago, when the District created a subsidy for guardianships, the city was at the forefront of a push to encourage extended families to take in young relatives who had been abused or neglected and could not return to their birth parents.
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Because guardianships are invasive proceedings, strict requirements are meant to safeguard situations in which a probate court has such unfettered power over a human being.
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Usually guardianships are necessary where someone has no assets or no family and there has been no estate plan appointing a fiduciary.
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We approve of guardianships on wealthy people who gamble their inheritances on options trading.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Yale Law Journal Pocket Part Essay on Regulatory Takings and the Poor: 2007
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