What is a guardian ed lightum? what is the function of such a person?
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In Illinois a judge can appoint a guardian ad litem to represent a child or an adult of alleged diminished capacity in a court procedure. I have been appointed in several cases where the adult children asked the court to appoint them as permanent guardian of their disabled parents. What this meant was that the children would have the power over all assets of the parents, and could put the parents in a nursing home.
My job was to interview the parents, to make sure they were disabled and/or could not handle their own finances. Interview any medical personnel associated with the parents and interview the children who wanted to be assigned as permanent guardians of their parents. After all interviews were completed I wrote a brief on the case and presented it in open court to the judge who asked me questions.
Courts appoint a temporary guardian ad litem in order to make sure that the individual in question is not being taken advantage of by relatives who's only interest is money. In Illinois the appointment lasts usually a month or two.
It is "Guardian ad Litem." Do a Yahoo! search with that phrase.
It is a volunteer appointed by a court to protect the interest of a child in a cour proceeding.
Wikipedia describes it as: "A guardian appointed to represent the interests of a person with respect to a single action in litigation is a guardian ad litem." I work in the foster care system and all of our children have a "guardian ad litem". We use them in our system to look at the case and to represent the child's point of view. They speak in court for the child and sort of speak for the children. Give the children a voice. The case worker for the child has laws and procedures to follow the same with the judge, but the guardian just speaks what they feel is in the child's best interest.
It's an attorney for a child, and looks after whats in the best interest of the child ONLY.
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