Legal guardians of children in California have several responsibilities. The primary responsibilities of a guardian are to provide custody, care, shelter, clothing, and food for the child. The guardian must also protect the child and foster the child\u2019s emotional growth and physical well-being. It is also the legal guardian\u2019s responsibility to provide for the child\u2019s education, as well as for his\/her medical and dental needs.<\/p>\n

The Guardianship Process<\/h2>\n

Whenever a person determines that legal guardianship is the best way to go, the first step in the process is to complete the petition with the clerk of court. In addition to filing a petition, some California counties have special forms that a potential guardian must fill out and submit. In addition, the applicant must serve the petition on certain individuals before the court will set a hearing in the case.<\/p>\n

In addition to completing and filing a guardianship petition, the court might require the completion of an investigation before it makes a determination as to guardianship. If an investigation occurs, the investigator will provide the court with a report, and the court will then reach its decision. In some instances, the court might decide that insufficient grounds exist to establish a guardianship. However, at other times, the court might go ahead and grant the petition.<\/p>\n

In any case, when it comes to filing a guardianship petition and attending court hearings, it is important that you have a knowledgeable California guardianship attorney by your side. Your attorney will be able to advocate for your position and work to convince the court that it should grant the guardianship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A California guardianship is a legal proceeding where someone other than a child\u2019s parent receives authority over property that belongs to the child \u2013 and\/or custody of the child. In order for a court to appoint someone as a child\u2019s guardian, the applicant will need to file a formal petition and other documents. The court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protection","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryantelderlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}