Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 14 > Chapter 12 > Article 3 - Transfer of Guardianship or Conservatorship

• Conservator: means a person appointed by the court to manage the estate of an adult protected person, including a person appointed under chapter 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• Court: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• court in this state: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means a person who has qualified as a guardian of an incapacitated person pursuant to testamentary or court appointment and includes a person who is appointed under chapter 5, article 3 of this title. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• Incapacitated: means lacking the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority or other disabling cause. See Arizona Laws 14-9101
• Incapacitated person: means an adult for whom a guardian has been appointed. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Interested person: includes any trustee, heir, devisee, child, spouse, creditor, beneficiary, person holding a power of appointment and other person who has a property right in or claim against a trust estate or the estate of a decedent, ward or protected person. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Person: means an individual or an organization. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Petition: means a written request to the court for an order after notice. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Proceeding: includes action at law and suit in equity. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Protected person: means an adult for whom a protective order has been issued. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• Protective order: means an order appointing a conservator or other order related to management of an adult's property. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, a federally recognized Indian tribe or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 14-12102
• Will: includes a codicil and any testamentary instrument that merely appoints an executor, revokes or revises another will, nominates a guardian or expressly excludes or limits the right of an individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent passing by intestate succession. See Arizona Laws 14-1201