Family asks court to end conservatorship for Ari Abrams and name standby guardians

At a hearing in the Lenawee County Probate & Juvenile Court, petitioners asked the court to allow the first annual accounting for the conservatorship of Ari Abrams, terminate the conservatorship and appoint two of Abrams’s sisters as standby guardians.

Petitioner's counsel Ms. Hansen Brent said the guardian ad litem had reviewed the first annual accounting and found the expenditures appropriate. "The funds have been depleted," Ms. Hansen Brent said, and the remaining money in the conservatorship had consisted largely of gifts from family and had been used to provide for Ari’s care after the sale of his real estate.

The guardian ad litem, Mr. McFadden, told the court he had "approved that," saying…