Guardianships
At Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, A Legal Professional Association, we have a team of experienced Cincinnati guardianship attorneys. We represent clients in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. We can help you establish a guardianship for someone who needs help managing finances or personal care needs. We can also help if you have to fight an unfair guardianship. We have been providing exceptional, client-centered service to clients in the Tri-State Area for more than 45 years.
Elder Guardianships
Guardianship arises most commonly in the elder law context. As a person ages and begins losing capacity to handle financial and personal affairs, family members will get involved and look to establish a guardianship over their elderly relative. By taking control of the finances or personal affairs of the elderly relative, the guardian is obligated to take care of the elderly relative's needs.
An elder guardianship is an important decision. Although it can be a great tool to help care for the needs and finances of an elderly person, a guardianship is based on the declaration of incapacity, with which comes the total loss of personal rights and responsibilities.
The need for a guardianship can also arise for children who have lost their parents, or for a relative who is physically healthy but not mentally capable of handling his or her own personal finances. Our Cincinnati Guardianship legal team can assist your family in both situations.
Children With Special Needs Reaching Adulthood
In many cases, a person with a developmental disorder will not have the capacity to live a normal adult life. Those who cannot handle their own finances or personal care needs are said to lack capacity. Someone who is incapacitated needs a guardian to handle the special needs and financial affairs. In most cases, this is a simple legal procedure passing on these responsibilities to the parents who have been managing their special needs child's care since birth, so these cases usually lack the potential conflict of elder guardianship cases.
Whether you are looking to establish yourself as guardian for an elderly loved one or for a child with special needs reaching adulthood, we can help. We can also help if you need dispute a guardianship that someone is trying to establish over you.
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