{"id":4500,"date":"2016-03-10T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:09:17","slug":"here-a-guardian-there-a-guardian-everywhere-a-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/10\/here-a-guardian-there-a-guardian-everywhere-a-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Here A Guardian, There A Guardian, Everywhere a Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0minor could have had several guardians during their\u00a0minority if one or both of their parents were deceased. Guardians generally fall into two categories:<\/p>\n

Guardian of the person<\/strong>–watched over the child and the child typically lived with them. Parents were often “guardians of the person,” and were sometimes referred to as “natural guardians.”
\nGuardian of the estate<\/strong>–watched over the child’s inheritance.<\/p>\n

These guardians may have been the same person, may have been relatives, and may have changed during the child’s minority. Or not–it depends upon the situation.<\/p>\n

There is also the possibility that a guardian ad litem <\/em>was appointed for a minor. \u00a0A guardian ad litem<\/em> was usually appointed for a child when that child was somehow involved in legal action and did not have a guardian of their own (such as if their parent’s estate was being sued and a guardian had never been appointed for the child) . This guardian was actually serving as the child’s “lawyer” and was not a guardian of the child’s person or estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0minor could have had several guardians during their\u00a0minority if one or both of their parents were deceased. Guardians generally fall into two categories: Guardian of the person–watched over the child and the child typically lived with them. Parents were often “guardians of the person,” and were sometimes referred to as “natural guardians.” Guardian of the […]<\/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-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}