Purpose of guardianship
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Ggnsc Holdings, LLC v. Lamb Ex Rel. Williams (2016)
Most recently applied in 2025 Ark. App. 292 - In the Matter of the Guardianship of Mc, a Minor, Sandra Andraca v. Patricia Tice (May 2025)
Acts 1985, No. 940, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 57-821.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Guardianship for an incapacitated person shall be:
(1) Used only as is necessary to promote and protect the well-being of the person and his or her property;
(2) Designed to encourage the development of maximum self-reliance and independence of the person; and
(3) Ordered only to the extent necessitated by the person's actual mental, physical, and adoptive limitations.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.