USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 13 - GUARDIANSHIPS; CONSERVATORSHIPS; TRUSTS
Chapter : CHAPTER 161 - CONSERVATORS FOR MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND MERCHANT SEAMEN
 Whenever a person, referred to in this
chapter as an absentee, serving in or with the Armed Forces of the United
States, or a person serving as a merchant seaman, has been reported or
listed as missing, or missing in action, or interned in a neutral
country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy, has an
interest in any form of property in this state or is a legal resident of
this state and has not provided an adequate power of attorney authorizing
another to act in his behalf in regard to such property or interest, then
the district court of the county of the absentee’s legal domicile or of
the county where such property is situated, upon petition alleging the
foregoing facts and showing the necessity for providing care of the
property of such absentee made by any person who would have an interest
in the property of the absentee were such absentee deceased, or on the
court’s own motion, after notice to, or on receipt of proper waivers
from, the heirs and next of kin of the absentee as provided by law for
the administration of an estate, and upon good cause being shown, may,
after finding the facts to be as aforesaid, appoint a conservator to take
charge of the absentee’s estate, under the supervision and subject to the
further orders of the court.

      [1:194:1945; 1943 NCL § 9570]


      1.  The court shall have full discretionary authority to appoint
any suitable person as conservator and may require a conservator to post
an adequate surety bond and to make such reports as the court may deem
necessary.

      2.  The conservator shall have the same powers and authority as the
guardian of the property of an infant or incompetent and shall be
considered as an officer or arm of the court.

      [2:194:1945; 1943 NCL § 9570.01]


      1.  At any time upon petition signed by the absentee, or on
petition of an attorney-in-fact acting under an adequate power of
attorney granted by the absentee, the court shall direct the termination
of the conservatorship and the delivery of all property held thereunder
to the absentee or to the designated attorney-in-fact.

      2.  If at any time subsequent to the appointment of a conservator
it shall appear that the absentee has died and an executor or
administrator has been appointed for his estate, the court shall direct
the termination of the conservatorship and the delivery of all property
of the deceased absentee held thereunder to such executor or
administrator.

      [3:194:1945; 1943 NCL § 9570.02]