§5-711. Compensation
1. Reasonable expenses; account for costs. The public guardian or conservator may receive such reasonable amounts for its expenses as guardian or conservator as the Probate Court may allow. The amounts so allowed must be allocated to an account from which may be drawn expenses for filing fees, court costs and other expenses required in the administration of the functions of the public guardian or conservator. No amounts thus received may inure to the benefit of any employee of the public guardian or conservator. Any balance in the account at the end of a fiscal year does not lapse but is carried forward from year to year and used for the purposes provided for in this subsection.
[PL 2021, c. 398, Pt. KK, §4 (AMD).]
2. Reimbursement of personal expenditures. Any personal expenditures made on the individual subject to guardianship's or protected person's behalf by the public guardian or conservator must, when properly evidenced, be reimbursed out of the individual subject to guardianship's or protected person's estate. Claims for services rendered by state agencies must be submitted to the Probate Court for approval before payment.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW). PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. F, §1 (AFF). PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF). PL 2021, c. 398, Pt. KK, §4 (AMD).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
Article 5: MAINE UNIFORM GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND PROTECTIVE PROCEEDINGS
Part 7: PUBLIC GUARDIAN AND CONSERVATOR
18-C §5-701. Public guardians and conservators; general
18-C §5-702. Priority of private guardian or conservator
18-C §5-703. Exclusiveness of public guardian or conservator
18-C §5-704. Nomination of public guardian or conservator
18-C §5-705. Acceptance by public guardian or conservator; plan
18-C §5-706. Officials authorized to act as public guardian or conservator
18-C §5-707. Duties and powers of a public guardian or conservator
18-C §5-708. No change in rights to services
18-C §5-709. No change in powers and duties of agency heads and trustees
18-C §5-710. Bond not required
18-C §5-712. Individuals subject to guardianship; guardian ad litem costs