Upon the entry of the order appointing a fiduciary and the submission of a bond consistent with the order, the clerk shall issue letters of conservatorship or letters of guardianship. The letters of conservatorship or guardianship shall either:

(1) Recite the specific powers removed from the minor or person with a disability and transferred to the fiduciary; or

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 34-1-129

  • Conservatorship: is a proceeding in which a court removes the decision-making powers and duties, in whole or in part, in a least restrictive manner, from a person with a disability who lacks capacity to make decisions in one or more important areas and places responsibility for one or more of those decisions in a conservator or co-conservators. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Court: means any court having jurisdiction to hear matters concerning guardians or conservators. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Fiduciary: means a guardian, coguardian, conservator, co-conservator, or qualified trustee as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age and who has not otherwise been emancipated. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Person: means any individual, nonhuman entity or governmental agency. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Person with a disability: means any person eighteen (18) years of age or older determined by the court to be in need of partial or full supervision, protection, and assistance by reason of mental illness, physical illness or injury, developmental disability, or other mental or physical incapacity. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Have attached to them the order or orders of the court specifying the powers removed from the minor or person with a disability and transferred to the fiduciary. If the fiduciary has been granted less than full authority over the person and property of the minor or person with a disability in the order of appointment, the clerk shall mark the letters prominently with the term “LIMITED”.
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