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Testamentary guardian - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2519

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     § 2519.  Testamentary guardian.
        (a)  Guardian of the person.--A person competent to make a
     will, being the sole surviving parent or adopting parent of any
     unmarried minor child, may appoint a testamentary guardian of
     the person of such child during his minority, or for any shorter
     period except that no parent who, for one year or upwards
     previous to his death, shall have willfully neglected or refused
     to provide for his child, or who, for a like period, shall have
     deserted the child or willfully failed to perform parental
     duties, shall have the right to appoint a testamentary guardian
     of the person of such child.
        (b)  Guardian of the estate.--Any person may by will appoint
     a guardian of real or personal property passing to a minor upon
     his death, when such property:
            (1)  Is devised, bequeathed or appointed to the minor in
        that person's will or descends from that person to the minor
        by intestacy.
            (2)  Is the proceeds of an insurance or annuity contract
        on the testator's life, unless the owner of the contract has
        made an inter vivos designation of a guardian therefor.
            (3)  Arises from an inter vivos transfer, the major
        portion of which constituted a gift from the testator, unless
        the testator has made an inter vivos designation of a
        guardian therefor.
            (4)  Is a cause of action arising by reason of the
        testator's death.
            (5)  Is a pension or death benefit from an employer of
        the testator or a society or organization of which the
        testator was a member.
            (6)  Is a tentative trust of which the testator was the
        settlor.
     (Oct. 4, 1978, P.L.909, No.173, eff. 60 days)

        1978 Amendment.  Act 173 amended subsec. (a).
        Cross References.  Section 2519 is referred to in section
     5615 of Title 23 (Domestic Relations).

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