What is Conservatorship?

In California, conservatorship is a case where a judge appoints a person or organization as financial caretaker of an adult who cannot manage their own finances. There are two main types of Conservatorship:

A)     Probate Conservatorship is the most common kind of conservatorship. There are two types of this: General and Limited.

a.       General
This tends to be for elderly people, or a person seriously impaired through an accident so as to be unable to take care of their own finances.

b.      Limited

This type of Conservatorship is for people with mental and/or learning disabilities that disallow them from tending their own finances.

B)      Lanterman-Petris-Short
This kind of Conservatorship is for adults with serious mental diseases/disorders, who often live in restricted living arrangements (such as an asylum). The adult whose care is in question will not or cannot accept the restricted living arrangements needed for their safety, and the conservatorship was started by a local government agency.

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