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Probate
Courts have jurisdiction over a wide variety of matters including:
Trusts and
Estates
- probating wills and the
administration of estates;
- overseeing testamentary
and living trusts;
- determining title to real
and personal property; and,
- construing the meaning of
wills and trusts.
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Guardians, Conservators and Civil Commitment
- appointing guardians for
persons who are mentally retarded;
- approving sterilizations
and placements of persons who are mentally retarded;
- appointing a guardian of
the estate or person for a child;
- for persons with mental
illness and/or for persons who are incapable of managing or
administering their own affairs, appointing conservators of the
person and the estate; and,
- committing those
suffering from severe mental illness to an appropriate facility.
Parents
- removing unfit parents as
guardians of their children;
- hearing the claims of
paternity of unwed fathers;
- terminating the parental
rights of parents who cannot fulfill their parental
responsibilities; and,
- granting adoptions.
Other
- granting name changes;
- approving or disapproving the marriage of a youth under the age
of sixteen years;
- waiving the blood tests required for the issuance of a marriage
license; and,
- assisting persons in obtaining passports.
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