Parts 1 to 4 of this article may be cited as the "Colorado Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act".
Source: L. 2000: Entire part R&RE, p. 1778, § 1, effective January 1, 2001 (see § 15-17-103).
ANNOTATION
The trial court has a broad discretion in all matters relating to protected persons, which is exclusive. Sweeney v. Summers, 194 Colo. 149, 571 P.2d 1067 (1977) (decided prior to 2000 repeal and reenactment).
This section does not create an exception for a "protected person" within the definition of "incapacitated person". A person who is an "incapacitated person" under this section, and thus ineligible to elect to receive a lump sum damage award payment under § 13-64-205 (1)(f) of the Health Care Availability Act, is not entitled to such election merely because the incapacitated person also is a "protected person". Rather, this section and the sections that follow, when read as a whole, provide that protected persons are necessarily incapacitated for purposes of § 13-64-205 (1)(f). Rodriguez ex rel. Rodriguez v. Healthone, 24 P.3d 9 (Colo. App. 2000), rev'd on other grounds, 50 P.3d 879 (Colo. 2002).