§ 73-501 Definitions of terms
§ 73-502 When appointment of curator required
§ 73-504 Petition for appointment of curator
§ 73-505 Appointment of curator for minor; certificate
§ 73-506 Appointment of curator for incapacitated person; certificate
§ 73-507 Notice upon filing of petition
§ 73-508 Appointment of curator
§ 73-509 Annual accounting
§ 73-510 Failure to account; removal
§ 73-511 Compensation of curator; bond premium
§ 73-512 Investments by curators
§ 73-513 Use of funds for support of third person
§ 73-514 Copy of public records to be furnished when required
§ 73-515a Eligibility for care or treatment by veterans’ administration or federal agency; order; notice; court jurisdiction
§ 73-515b Same; orders from courts of other states; effect; consent
§ 73-515c Same; transfer to federal agency; notice; exception
§ 73-516 Final accounting
§ 73-517 Construction of act
§ 73-518 Title of act
§ 73-519 Interpretation
§ 73-520 Validity
§ 73-521 Repeals
§ 73-522 Purchase of real estate; evidence of value and title
§ 73-523 Administrator of veterans’ affairs to be party in interest, when

Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 73 > Article 5 - Curators for Veterans

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • benefits: shall mean all moneys payable by the United States through the bureau. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • bureau: means the United States veterans' bureau or its successor. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands but does not imply a sealed instrument. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • director: means the director of the United States veterans' bureau or his successor. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • income: shall include only moneys received by the curator from the bureau and all earnings, interest and profits derived therefrom. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mentally ill person: means a mentally ill person as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • pensioner: means a beneficiary of the bureau. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • person: includes a partnership, corporation or an association. See Kansas Statutes 73-501
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.