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A conservator is a person appointed by the court to take care of someone's finances when he or she cannot make these types of decisions because of an illness, injury, or disability.

In an LPS conservatorship, a court-appointed conservator over the person is responsible for managing the conservatee's placement, medical decisions, and mental health treatment. A conservator over the estate is responsible for marshalling, protecting, and managing the conservatee's assets that remain in their estate.

While both provide an individual with the authority to make decisions regarding the financial matters of another person, a POA is executed in advance of incapacity, while a conservatorship happens upon petition to the court after an individual is no longer able to competently make important financial decisions.

Conservators are reimbursed for expenses, and paid for their services, from the assets of the person they are taking care of.

Conservatorships are costly. There are filing fees, maybe attorney fees and ongoing legal costs. Conservator fees range from $50 an hour to $135 an hour or more. Trustee and other professional asset manager fees for high-value estates typically run from 1 to 1.5% of the asset value annually.

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An executor and a trustee are similar in that they both have a duty of absolute care to the beneficiaries of the estate/trust, but their roles in respect of the beneficiaries are quite different. An executor is more of a liquidator, whereas a trustee is more of a business manager.

Conservator of the Person: A conservator of the person is someone who is given the legal right to make decisions about the person's day-to-day life. This can include a broad range of responsibilities.

The difference between trustee and guardian is immense. ... A guardian, in this context, is a person appointed by a court to make another person's legal, financial, and healthcare decisions. A trustee is the person in charge of managing the assets in a trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries.

As nouns the difference between executor and conservator is that executor is a person who carries out some task while conservator is one who conserves, preserves or protects something.

A conservator is not the same as an executor. A conservator manages a persons financial affairs while they are living an executor (or administrator) is responsible for financial affairs after a person passes away.

A guardian or conservator or sometimes both is appointed by the court when an individual has been determined to be mentally or physically incapacitated, or when a minor is in need of an adult to manage his property. Those in need of such care are referred to as wards of the court.

A Guardian only has power while the person they have guardianship over is alive. An Executor only becomes an executor after someone dies and they are named the Executor. Guardianship has its limits.

Some states have now adopted statutes that replace the term executor with personal representative so the terms are often used interchangeably. An administrator or administratrix is the person appointed by the probate court to administer the estate of a person who has died without a will (intestate).

How does a conservatorship end after the conservatee has died? According to California Probate Code §1860(a), A conservatorship continues until terminated by the death of the conservatee or by court order. Thus, a conservatorship terminates by operation of law upon the conservatee's death.