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O.C.G.A. § 29-5-46 — Joint and several liability of conservator and surety | Georgia Code
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TITLE 29 GUARDIAN AND WARD

Section 5. Conservators of Adults, 29-5-1 through 29-5-140.

ARTICLE 5 CONSERVATOR'S BOND AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS

29-5-46. Joint and several liability of conservator and surety.

The conservator and any surety shall be held and deemed joint and several obligors and may be subjected jointly and severally to liability in the same action. When a conservator moves beyond the limits of this state, dies, and leaves an unrepresented estate, or is in a position that an attachment may be issued as against a debtor, any party in interest or any person having demands against that conservator in the conservator's representative capacity may institute an action against any one or more of the sureties on the bond of the conservator in the first instance, without first obtaining a judgment against the conservator in that person's representative capacity.

(Code 1981, §29-5-46, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 161, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Liability for punitive damages.

- Conservator's bond pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 29-5-40 et seq. does not cover punitive damages. In re Estate of Gladstone, 303 Ga. 547, 814 S.E.2d 1 (2018).

Judgment that a conservator's bond covered punitive damages even though such damages were not expressly provided for under O.C.G.A. § 29-5-40 et seq. or under the provisions of the bond itself was reversed because a conservator's bond pursuant to § 29-5-40 et seq. does not cover punitive damages. In re Estate of Gladstone, 303 Ga. 547, 814 S.E.2d 1 (2018).

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