1835.5
Effective Jan 1, 2023Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 894, Sec. 9. (AB 1663) Effective January 1, 2023.
- (a) Within 30 days of the establishment of a conservatorship under this division, and annually thereafter, the superior court shall provide information to a conservatee under its jurisdiction, written in plain language, with a list of the conservatee’s rights within the conservatorship.
(b) The information to be provided shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following:
- (1) The name and contact information of the conservator.
- (2) A description of the conservatorship, including the rights the conservatee retains under the conservatorship.
- (3) The role, duties, and contact information, including name, telephone number, address, and email address, of the court investigator and the court alternatives program.
- (4) The person to petition to end or change the conservatorship and contact information for the person to contact to begin that process.
(5) A personalized list of rights that the conservatee retains, even under the conservatorship, including the rights to do all of the following:
- (A) Directly receive and control their own salary.
- (B) Make or change their will.
- (C) Get married.
- (D) Receive mail.
- (E) Have visits from family and friends.
- (F) Have a lawyer.
- (G) Ask a judge to change conservators.
- (H) Ask a judge to end the conservatorship.
- (I) Vote, unless expressly withheld by the court.
- (J) Control personal spending money if a judge permits an allowance to be paid directly to the conservatee.
- (K) Make their own health care decisions.
- (L) Enter into business transactions to provide for the conservatee’s basic needs and those of their children.
- (M) Participate in other activities the court allows when the conservator is appointed, or when the court order later grants that right at the conservatee’s request.
- (6) The personalized list of rights in paragraph (5) shall state which rights, if any, were expressly withheld by the court.