Proof required for appointment of guardian
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Blunt v. Cartwright (2000)
Most recently applied in Daniel Bahner v. Susan Wakefield and Kelli Larue (March 2026)
Acts 1985, No. 940, § 14; A.S.A. 1947, § 57-833.
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.
Before appointing a guardian, the court must be satisfied that:
(1) The person for whom a guardian is prayed is either a minor or otherwise incapacitated;
(2) A guardianship is desirable to protect the interests of the incapacitated person; and
(3) The person to be appointed guardian is qualified and suitable to act as such.
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.