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3B:13A-8.  Designation of conservator
The court may appoint a person or a financial institution, qualified under the laws of this State to act as a fiduciary, as the conservator of the conservatee’s estate.  If the court appoints a conservator, it shall do so in the following order of priority:

a.  A person or financial institution nominated or designated by the conservatee;

b.  The conservatee’s spouse;

c.  One or more of the conservatee’s adult children, or where there are none, the person or persons closest in degree of kinship to the conservatee; or

d.  Some other proper person or financial institution as the court shall determine.

The court may, in its discretion, deviate from this order of priority if a potential conservator is unable or unwilling to serve or for some other good cause.

L.1983, c. 192, s. 1, eff. May 23, 1983.