What is a Guardianship or Conservatorship?
Guardianships and conservatorships are court-created and court-supervised relationships between two people. In a guardianship a person, called the “guardian,” is given authority to act for the other person, called the “protected person” (or, previously, the “ward”). A conservatorship is based on the same principle, but the person given authority to make decisions for the protected person is called a “conservator.”