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Do you know the difference between a guardianship and a conservatorship? Many of us are learning about these terms since the legal case of Britney Spears first came out in the new. In this video, Attorney Justin O'Dell explains.
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i've heard of guardianships
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so can you kind of tell me what's the
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difference between a guardianship and a
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conservative and so
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a lot of the confusion comes because
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when i first started practicing law it's
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been 20 years now but when I first
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started practicing law
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we referred to everything under the
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phrase guardianship
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and so we had a guardianship of the
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person
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and a guardianship of the property and
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when i started practicing law that's
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that's what it was
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so it was all a guardianship and then it
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was just whether the person was charged
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with
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with making decisions for somebody's
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welfare which would be a guardian of the
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person
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or making decisions about their assets
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which would be a guardian of the
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property
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some years ago it's been at least 10 or
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12 or more now
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they revised the probate code and when
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they revised that they decided to
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get rid of kind of the confusing
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nomenclature and a guardianship
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now in georgia and in most states a
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guardianship
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deals with the person charged with the
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welfare of award
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so the ward is the person under the
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guardianship and the guardian
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is the person that helps make decisions
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about them personally medical decisions
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and
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other things a conservator
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conservatorship is charged with the with
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the assets of the ward
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so they're charged with helping them
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make financial decisions
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so although rare uh we do have
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situations where somebody could be under
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a financial or asset based
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conservatorship
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but not necessarily under a guardianship
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or they have a conservator in place
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and a more or less restrictive guardian
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in place because they're pretty
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functional
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you
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