Syfert Injury Law Firm

Your Trusted Partner in Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation

Call Now: 904-383-7448

O.C.G.A. § 53-9-15 — Termination of conservatorship | Georgia Code

O.C.G.A. § 53-9-15 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 53 WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Section 9. Missing Persons and Persons Believed to be Dead, 53-9-1 through 53-9-21.

ARTICLE 2 CONSERVATORS

53-9-15. Termination of conservatorship.

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.

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

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 OCGA Secs. 53-9-27 and 53-9-47 (relating to approvals of final returns by conservators) are repealed.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.

Database error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database

This Georgia Code resource is curated by a Florida and Georgia attorney, a personal injury and workers' compensation attorney admitted in Georgia (State Bar of Georgia No. 881027, since 2006) and Florida. For legal consultation, call 904-383-7448.