When you’re concerned about the safety and wellbeing of someone close to you who has lost the mental or physical ability to make personal or financial decisions, a California conservatorship can help.  By creating a conservatorship, the court will name a person to serve as a “conservator,” who will supervise the incapacitated person’s care or finances.  Every situation is different, which is why conservatorships can take three different forms: The conservator can be given decision-making authority over the incapacitated person’s personal affairs (known as a conservatorship of the person), over his or her property and finances (known as a conservatorship of the estate), or both.  The type of conservatorship created will depend on what’s needed under the circumstances to fully take care of the “conservatee.”  (more…)