§ 26-68. Appointment of conservator; jurisdiction and procedure
Whenever a person, hereinafter referred to as an absentee, disappears, or absents himself from his usual place of residence, or is reported or listed as missing, or missing in action, or interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or has an interest in any property in this Commonwealth, or is a legal resident of this Commonwealth, the court having probate jurisdiction in the city or county of the absentee's legal residence or if such absentee be a nonresident of this Commonwealth then the court having probate jurisdiction in the city or county wherein the property is situated, upon petition alleging the facts and showing the necessity for providing for care of the property of the absentee, made by any person who would have an interest in the property of the absentee were he deceased, including a creditor of such person, or on the court's own motion, after notice to the heirs and next of kin of such absentee, as provided by law, and upon good cause being shown, may appoint a conservator to take charge of the absentee's estate.
(1944, p. 361; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 5400b.)
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