Title 13, Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions

(a) The office of public advocacy (AS 44.21.400) shall serve as the public guardian. (b) A court may order the public guardian to act as full guardian, partial guardian, conservator, or special conservator for a person who is determined under this chapter to be in need of guardia…

(a) The public guardian has the same powers and duties with respect to the public guardian's wards and protected persons as a private guardian or conservator. (b) The public guardian, when appointed as guardian or conservator, shall endeavor, for as long as practical, to find a s…

The public guardian may, on the public guardian's own motion or at the request of the court, intervene in a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding if the public guardian or the court considers the intervention to be justified because (1) an appointed guardian or conservator i…

The public guardian may employ staff and delegate to members of the staff or to volunteers the powers and duties as guardian or conservator and other powers and duties under this chapter. However, the public guardian retains responsibility for the proper performance of the delega…

(a) The commissioner of administration may establish by regulation a schedule of reasonable fees for the costs of the public guardian's services. The fee schedule established may be based upon the ability of the ward or protected person to pay for guardian services but may not ex…