Senate Judiciary reviews S.95 language on notice and status reports for standby guardianships

Senate Judiciary members and a superior court judge on Thursday debated language in S.95 about how guardians must notify parents in standby guardianship cases and what reports must be filed.

The judge testifying said the bill’s language can be tightened by deleting the word “changes” in a subsection requiring notice, leaving a statutory duty for guardians to provide status reports to parents at their last-known email and to parents’ attorneys at their last-known mailing address. “The word ‘changes’ can be deleted,” the judge said, explaining that the custodial guardianship agreement and the standard form used when a guardianship is opened…