Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 464-A:34

  • 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.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Ward: means a person for whom a guardian of the person and the estate, or the person, or estate, has been appointed. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 464-A:2
The guardian of the person and estate, or the person, or the estate, shall have the same rights that the ward would have, if legally competent, to waive the provisions of a will in favor of the ward, intended to be in lieu of distributive share, and shall likewise have the power to release said ward’s homestead right, and take for said ward the same property and rights.