North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 34 Veterans' Guardianship Act

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-1.   Title
  This Chapter shall be known as "The Veterans' Guardianship Act." (1929, c. 33, s. 1.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-2.   Definitions
  In this Chapter: The term "benefits" shall mean all moneys payable by the United States through the Bureau. The term "Bureau" means the United...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-2.1.   Guardian's powers as to property; validation of prior acts
  Any guardian appointed under the provisions of this Chapter may be guardian of all property, real or personal, belonging to the ward to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-3.   Appointment of guardian for wards entitled to benefits from United States Veterans' Bureau
  Whenever, pursuant to any law of the United States or regulation of the Bureau, the Director requires, prior to payment of benefits, that a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-4.   Guardian may not be named for more than five wards; exceptions; banks and trust companies, public guardians, or where wards are members of same family
  It shall be unlawful for any person, other than a public guardian qualified under Article 11, Chapter 35A, General Statutes of North Carolina, to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-5.   Petition for appointment of guardian
  A petition for the appointment of a guardian may be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction by or on behalf of any person...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-6.   Certificate of Director prima facie evidence of necessity for appointment of guardian of minor
  Where a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian of a minor ward a certificate of the Director, or his representative, setting...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-7.   Certificate as evidence in regard to guardianship of mentally incompetent wards
  Where a petition is filed for the appointment of a guardian of a mentally incompetent ward a certificate of the Director, or his representative,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-8.   Notice of filing of petition
  Upon the filing of a petition for the appointment of a guardian, under the provisions of this Chapter, the court shall cause such notice...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-9.   Qualifications of guardian; surety bond
  Before making an appointment under the provisions of this Chapter the court shall be satisfied that the guardian whose appointment is sought is a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-10.   Guardian's accounts to be filed; hearing on accounts
  Every guardian, who shall receive on account of his ward any moneys from the Bureau, shall file with the court annually, on the anniversary...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-11.   Failure to file account cause for removal
  If any guardian shall fail to file any account of the moneys received by him from the Bureau on account of his ward within...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-12.   Compensation at five percent; additional compensation; premiums on bonds
  Compensation payable to guardians shall not exceed five percent (5%) of the income of the ward during any year, except that the court may...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-13.   Investment of funds
  Every guardian shall invest the funds of the estate in any of the following securities: (1) United States government bonds. (2) State of North...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-14.   Application of ward's estate
  A guardian may apply any income received from the Veterans Administration for the benefit of the ward in the same manner and to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-14.1.   Payment of veterans' benefits to relatives
  (a) It shall be lawful for a guardian or trustee of a mentally disordered or incompetent Veterans Administration beneficiary to pay to or for...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-15.   Certified copy of record required by Bureau to be furnished without charge
  Whenever a copy of any public record is required by the Bureau or the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to be used in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-16.   Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 589, s. 14, effective January 1, 1986
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-17.   Discharge of guardian
  When a minor ward for whom a guardian has been appointed under the provisions of this Chapter or other laws of this State shall...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 34-18.   Construction of Chapter
  This Chapter shall be construed liberally to secure the beneficial intents and purposes thereof and shall apply only to beneficiaries of the Bureau. (1929,...

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