O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-9-15 (2019)

Termination of conservatorship

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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A missing person for whose estate a conservator has been appointed may at any time petition the probate court that has jurisdiction over the conservator for an order terminating the conservatorship. Upon a finding by the court that the petitioner is in fact the missing individual, the court shall enter an order terminating the conservatorship and directing the conservator to make a final return to the court and to pay over and deliver all funds and property in the conservator’s hands to the missing individual.

History

Code 1981, § 53-9-15, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 504, § 10.

Annotations

COMMENT This section replaces former OCGA Secs. 53-9-26 and 53-9-46. OCGA Secs. 53-9-27 and 53-9-47 (relating to approvals of final returns by conservators) are repealed. RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Absentees, §§ 3, 5, 18, 19. 31 Am. Jur. 2d, Executors and Administrators, § 1043.

C.J.S. - 1 C.J.S., Absentees, § 8 et seq.