{"id":4221,"date":"2016-01-20T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2016-01-21T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:05:04","slug":"one-dead-parent-could-still-mean-a-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/one-dead-parent-could-still-mean-a-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"One Dead Parent Could Still Mean A Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a man dies leaving behind a wife and children, don&#8217;t assume that there won&#8217;t be a guardianship because one parent is still living. While a mother typically has physical custody of the children if the father dies, for much of US history someone would have been appointed guardian to oversee their interest in their father&#8217;s estate. That guardian may not have been the mother. This &#8220;financial&#8221; guardian would not typically have gotten custody of the child&#8211;that would remain with the mother.<\/p>\n<p>These guardianship records can provide more details about the father and the children, depending upon the time period. In the United States guardianship records are typically local court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a man dies leaving behind a wife and children, don&#8217;t assume that there won&#8217;t be a guardianship because one parent is still living. While a mother typically has physical custody of the children if the father dies, for much of US history someone would have been appointed guardian to oversee their interest in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}