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Correlating with the SJ (sensing?judging) Myers?Briggs types, the Guardian temperament comprises the following role variants (listed with their correlating Myers?Briggs types): Inspector (ISTJ), Protector (ISFJ), Provider (ESFJ), and Supervisor (ESTJ).

A power of attorney and a guardianship are tools that help someone act in your stead if you become incapacitated. With a power of attorney, you choose who you want to act for you. In a guardianship proceeding, the court chooses who will act as guardian.

Non-Relative Guardianship Rights In New Mexico If the parents cannot provide care, appropriate supervision, and guidance, then a guardian can apply. Once the Kinship-Guardian act is in place all the parent's responsibilities concerning the child and the child's freedoms are then transferred onto the new legal guardian.

A Legal Guardian cannot be appointed by a parent who is alive, as it is not possible to transfer parental responsibility to another person. For this reason, Legal Guardians are usually appointed in a parent's will. The will needs to be signed and dated for the guardianship appointment to take effect.

A guardian appointed for a child pursuant to the Kinship Guardianship Act has the legal rights and duties of a parent except the right to consent to adoption of the child and except for parental rights and duties that the court orders retained by a parent.

In order to be appointed as the legal guardian of a child you must file a petition with the court. If the child's parents agree you can have them sign a consent form and file it with the court, but you must still go through the court proceeding become the child's legal guardian.