§ 35.71 Definitions
§ 35.72 Guardians; manner of appointment
§ 35.73 Administrator of veterans’ affairs; interested party in proceedings for appointment of guardian; notice, hearing; limitation on number of wards
§ 35.74 Guardians; petition for appointment, filing, content
§ 35.75 Guardian for minor; prima facie evidence of necessity
§ 35.76 Guardian for incompetent; prima facie evidence of necessity
§ 35.77 Guardians; notice of filing petition for appointment
§ 35.78 Guardians; bonds, execution and filing; corporate guardians, exemption; sureties
§ 35.79 Guardians; annual accounting; filing, notice, hearing
§ 35.80 Guardians; failure to file account, penalty
§ 35.81 Guardians; compensation; notice and hearing
§ 35.82 Guardians; investments permitted with prior approval of court
§ 35.82i Corporate guardians; common trust fund investments permitted
§ 35.83 Maintenance and support of ward
§ 35.84 Purchase of home for ward
§ 35.85 Guardian; discharge, release of sureties
§ 35.85a Successor corporate guardians; appointment, conditions and procedure
§ 35.86 Insane veteran; commitment, procedure
§ 35.86a Veteran of unsound mind or otherwise in need of confinement; commitment, procedure; transfer
§ 35.87 Construction of act
§ 35.88 Uniform veterans’ guardianship act; short title
§ 35.90 Modification and repeals of prior law
§ 35.91 Application of act as to surety bonds, administration of estates, and investments; liability of guardian, liquidation of investments

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 35 > Act 321 of 1937 - Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act

  • administrator: means the administrator of veterans affairs, or his successor. See Michigan Laws 35.71
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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 paid or payable by the United States through the veterans administration. See Michigan Laws 35.71
  • Board certified: means certified to practice in a particular medical specialty by a national board recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties or the American Osteopathic Association. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Certified nurse midwife: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification in the practice of nurse midwifery by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Certified nurse practitioner: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification as a nurse practitioner by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Check: means a draft that is payable on demand and drawn on a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • city: whenever used in this act , shall be construed to mean a city incorporated under this act, or made subject to its provisions. See Michigan Laws 113.10
  • Clinical nurse specialist-certified: means an individual who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been granted a specialty certification as a clinical nurse specialist by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Commission: means the commission of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Commissioner: means the director or his or her authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Customer: means an individual who inquires into the availability of or applies for a deferred presentment service transaction or a drawer who enters into a deferred presentment service transaction. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • deferred presentment service transaction: means a transaction between a licensee and a customer under which the licensee agrees to do all of the following:
  (i) Pay to the customer an agreed-upon amount in exchange for a fee. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Dental school: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become dentists. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Dentist: means an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of dentistry under part 166. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Department: means the department of natural resources. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Designated advanced practice registered nurse: means a certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist-certified. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Designated mental health professional: means an individual who is qualified in the area of mental illness or developmental disabilities and who is 1 of the following:
  •   (i) A nurse. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Designated physician: means a physician qualified in 1 of the physician specialty areas identified in section 2711. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Designated professional: means a designated physician, designated advanced practice registered nurse, dentist, physician's assistant, or designated mental health professional. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Drawee: means a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or other person on which a check is drawn. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Drawer: means a customer who enters into a deferred presentment service transaction with a licensee. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • 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.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Financial licensing act: means this act or any of the financial licensing acts as defined in section 2 of the consumer financial services act, 1988 PA 161, MCL 487. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • 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
  • Forest: means a tract of land that is at least 10% stocked by trees of any size, whether of commercial or noncommercial species, or formerly having tree cover and not currently developed for nonforest use, including woodlands, woodlots, windbreaks, and shelter belts. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Forestry operations: means activities related to the harvesting, reforestation, and other management activities, including, but not limited to, thinning, pest control, fertilization, and wildlife management, that are consistent with principles of sustainable forestry. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Generally accepted forestry management practices: means those forest management practices as prescribed by the commission. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • 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.
  • Health resource shortage area: means a geographic area, population group, or health facility designated by the department under section 2717. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • income: shall include only moneys received by the guardian from the veterans administration, all earnings, interest, and profit derived therefrom and all property acquired therewith. See Michigan Laws 35.71
  • 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.
  • Landowner: means the possessor of a fee interest in land or a tenant, lessee, occupant, or other person in lawful control of land. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensed professional counselor: means an individual who is licensed under part 181 to engage in the practice of counseling without supervision. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Licensee: means a person that is licensed to engage in the business of providing deferred presentment service transactions under this act. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Marriage and family therapist: means an individual who is licensed under part 169 to engage in the practice of marriage and family therapy. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Maturity date: means the date on which a drawer's check is to be redeemed, presented for payment, or entered into the check-clearing process in a deferred presentment service transaction. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Medicaid: means benefits under the program of medical assistance established under title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396 to 1396w-6, and administered by the department under the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Medical school: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become physicians. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Medicare: means benefits under the federal Medicare program established under title XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to 1395lll. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Mental health professional program: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become a designated mental health professional. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • National Health Service Corps: means the agency established under 42 USC 254d. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Nurse: means an individual who is licensed to engage in the practice of nursing under part 172. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Nursing program: means an accredited program for the training of individuals to become nurses. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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.
  • person: includes a partnership, corporation or an association. See Michigan Laws 35.71
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity except a governmental entity. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Physician: means an individual who is licensed as a physician under part 170 or part 175. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Psychologist: means an individual licensed to engage in the practice of psychology under part 182. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Redeem: means that the customer pays to the licensee an amount equal to the face amount of a check included in a deferred presentment service transaction, on or before the maturity date or after the check is deposited and returned unpaid by the drawee, and the licensee returns the check to the customer. See Michigan Laws 487.2122
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Service obligation: means the contractual obligation undertaken by an individual under section 2705 or section 2707 to provide health care services for a determinable time period at a site designated by the department. See Michigan Laws 333.2701
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Sustainable forestry: means forestry practices that are designed to meet present and future wood product needs by employing a land stewardship ethic that integrates the reforestation, managing, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products with the conservation of soil, air and water quality, wildlife and fish habitat, and visual changes. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Timber: means live or dead trees, including, but not limited to, bark, foliage, wood, and firewood. See Michigan Laws 320.2033
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • veterans administration: means the United States veterans administration, its predecessors or successors. See Michigan Laws 35.71
  • ward: means a beneficiary of the veterans administration. See Michigan Laws 35.71