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Subsidized Guardianship Rhode Island is implementing the Federal Guardianship Assistance Program (GAP). GAP provides guardianship subsidies for eligible children who have been living with relatives in foster care and cannot return to their parents, and for whom adoption has been ruled out.

As noted above, Rhode Island has a limited guardianship law, which generally focuses on four areas of decision-making capacity: finances, health care, relationships, and residence. Guardianship can be tailored to take into account a ward's ability to make decisions in some but not all of these four areas.

Guardians are appointed when a court determines that an individual is at risk because they cannot make decisions for themselves and there is no less restrictive way to meet the individual's needs. Guardianship may remove a broad spectrum of rights from the individual.

A Guardian ad litem acts as an officer of the Court. ingly, a Guardian ad litem shall be guided by the best interests of the child and shall exercise the Guardian's independent judgment on behalf of the child(ren) in all relevant matters.

A physician must complete documentation that the individual is unable to make decisions for themselves. Someone must step forward to petition the probate court to become the Guardian for the individual. The individual and their family must be notified of the petition by the court.

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