Arkansas Code Title 28, Subtitle 5, Chapter 66 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act

• § 28-66-101 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter:"Person" means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or an association;"Veterans' Administration" means the Veterans' Administration, its predecessors or successors;"Income"...
• § 28-66-102 - Administrator As Party in Interest.
  The administrator shall be a party in interest in any proceeding for the appointment or removal of a guardian or for the removal of...
• § 28-66-103 - Application.
  Whenever, pursuant to any law of the United States or regulation of the Veterans' Administration, it is necessary, prior to payment of benefits, that...
• § 28-66-104 - Limitation on Number of Wards.
  No person other than a bank or trust company shall be guardian of more than five (5) wards at one (1) time, unless all...
• § 28-66-105 - Appointment of Guardians.
  (1) A petition for the appointment of a guardian may be filed by any relative or friend of the ward or by any person...
• § 28-66-106 - Evidence of Necessity for Guardian for Infant.
  Where a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian for a minor, a certificate of the administrator or his authorized representative, setting...
• § 28-66-107 - Evidence of Necessity for Guardian for Incompetent.
  Where a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian for a mentally incompetent ward, a certificate of the administrator or his duly...
• § 28-66-108 - Notice.
  Upon the filing of a petition for the appointment of a guardian under this chapter, notice shall be given to the ward, to such...
• § 28-66-109 - Bond.
  (1) Upon the appointment of a guardian, he shall execute and file a bond to be approved by the court in an amount not...
• § 28-66-110 - Petitions and Accounts, Notices and Hearings.
  (1) Every guardian who has received or shall receive on account of his ward any moneys or other thing of value from the United...
• § 28-66-111 - Penalty for Failure to Account.
  If any guardian shall fail to file with the court any account as required by this chapter, or by an order of the court,...
• § 28-66-112 - Compensation of Guardians.
  Compensation payable to guardians shall be based upon services rendered and shall not exceed six percent (6%) of the amount of moneys received during...
• § 28-66-113 - Investments.
  (a) (1) A guardian shall invest the surplus funds of his or her ward's estate in securities or property as authorized under the laws...
• § 28-66-114 - Maintenance and Support.
  A guardian shall not apply any portion of the income or the estate for the support or maintenance of any person other than the...
• § 28-66-115 - Purchase of Home for Ward.
  (1) The court may authorize the purchase of the entire fee simple title to real estate in this state in which the guardian has...
• § 28-66-116 - Copies of Public Records to Be Furnished.
  When a copy of any public record is required by the Veterans' Administration to be used in determining the eligibility of any person to...
• § 28-66-117 - Discharge of Guardian and Release of Sureties.
  In addition to any other provisions of law relating to judicial restoration and discharge of guardian, a certificate by the Veterans' Administration showing that...
• § 28-66-118 - Commitment to Veterans' Administration or Other Agency of United States Government.
  (1) Whenever, in any proceeding under the laws of this state for the commitment of a person alleged to be of unsound mind or...
• § 28-66-119 - Liberal Construction.
  This chapter shall be so construed to make uniform the law of these states which enact it.
• § 28-66-120 - Short Title.
  This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act."
• § 28-66-121 - Severability.
  If any provision of this chapter or application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• § 28-66-122 - Modification of Prior Laws.
  All acts or parts of acts relating to beneficiaries of the Veterans' Administration inconsistent with this chapter are hereby repealed, especially §§ 6318 to...
• § 28-66-123 - Application of Chapter.
  The provisions of this chapter relating to surety bonds and the administration of estates of wards shall apply to all "income" and "estate" as...
• § 28-66-124 - Time of Taking Effect.
  This chapter shall take effect from and after June 10, 1943.

Last modified: November 15, 2016