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2.0 Intake. Legal guardianship is the permanent transfer of legal responsibility for a child in state custody to a kin/relative or an individual other than his or her parents.

Legal guardianship means a court grants someone other than a biological parent the right to care for a minor. Custody (most often) generally describes a parent caring for his or her own child. Guardianship does not always grant custody or definitively mean a biological parent's custody is revoked.

A guardianship does not rewrite history. It just transfers the rights and responsibilities from the birth parents to the new guardians.

? A petition for appointment of a minor guardian shall be filed and heard in the county where the minor has resided for the past six months unless the court finds extraordinary circumstances for a sooner filing; or if the minor is a nonresident of the state, a county in which the minor has an estate.

§44A-1-4. (1) ?Conservator? means a person appointed by the court who is responsible for managing the estate and financial affairs of a protected person, and, where the context plainly indicates, the term ?conservator? means or includes a ?limited conservator? or a ?temporary conservator?.

At preliminary hearing, court may order trial home placement and temporary reinstatement of parental rights upon finding that there has been material change in circumstances, parent is willing to provide care for child, parent is able to provide safe family home or the home can be made safe with the assistance of ...