A guardian or conservator may be removed for any of the following causes:
- (a) Failure to use ordinary care and diligence in the management of the estate.
- (b) Failure to file an inventory or an account within the time allowed by law or by court order.
- (c) Continued failure to perform duties or incapacity to perform duties suitably.
- (d) Conviction of a felony, whether before or after appointment as guardian or conservator.
- (e) Gross immorality.
- (f) Having such an interest adverse to the faithful performance of duties that there is an unreasonable risk that the guardian or conservator will fail faithfully to perform duties.
- (g) In the case of a guardian of the person or a conservator of the person, acting in violation of any provision of Section 2356.
- (h) In the case of a guardian of the estate or a conservator of the estate, insolvency or bankruptcy of the guardian or conservator.
- (i) In the case of a conservator appointed by a court in another jurisdiction, removal because that person would not have been appointed in this state despite being eligible to serve under the law of this state.
- (j) In any other case in which the court in its discretion determines that removal is in the best interests of the ward or conservatee; but, in considering the best interests of the ward, if the guardian was nominated under Section 1500 or 1501, the court shall take that fact into consideration.