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Section 5-102Facility of payment or delivery
Section 5-103Delegation of powers by parent or guardian
Section 5-104Reserved
Section 5-201Appointment and status of guardian of minor
Section 5-202Parental or guardian appointment of guardian for minor
Section 5-203Objection by minor fourteen or older to parental appointment
Section 5-205Reserved
Section 5-207Court appointment of guardian of minor; qualifications; priority of minor’s nominee
Section 5-208Bond; consent to service by acceptance of appointment; notice
Section 5-209Powers, duties, rights and immunities of guardian of minor; limitations
Section 5-210Termination of appointment of guardian; general
Section 5-211Reserved
Section 5-212Resignation, removal, and other post-appointment proceedings
Section 5-301Nomination of guardian for incapacitated person by will or other writing
Section 5-302Reserved
Section 5-306Findings; order of appointment
Section 5-307Bond; acceptance of appointment; consent to jurisdiction
Section 5-308Emergency orders; temporary guardians
Section 5-310Termination of guardianship for incapacitated person
Section 5-311Removal or resignation of guardian; termination of incapacity
Section 5-312Reserved
Section 5-313Religious freedom of incapacitated person
Section 5-401Management of estate
Section 5-402Protective proceedings; jurisdiction of business affairs of protected persons
Section 5-403Reserved
Section 5-405Notice
Section 5-406Reserved
Section 5-408Protective arrangements and single transactions authorized
Section 5-409Who may be appointed conservator; penalties
Section 5-410Bond
Section 5-412Acceptance of appointment; consent to jurisdiction
Section 5-412AEmergency orders; temporary conservators
Section 5-414Reserved
Section 5-415Petitions for orders subsequent to appointment
Section 5-416General duty of conservator; plan
Section 5-417Inventory and records
Section 5-419Conservators; title by appointment
Section 5-420Recording of conservator’s letters
Section 5-421Sale, encumbrance, or transaction involving conflict of interest voidable; exceptions
Section 5-422Persons dealing with conservators; protection
Section 5-423ADelegation
Section 5-424Distributive duties and powers of conservator
Section 5-425Enlargement or limitation of powers of conservator
Section 5-426Preservation of estate plan; right to examine
Section 5-427Claims against protected person
Section 5-428Personal liability of conservator
Section 5-430Payment of debt and delivery of property to foreign conservator without local proceedings
Section 5-431Foreign conservator; proof of authority; bond; powers
Section 5-501Definition
Section 5-502Durable power of attorney not affected by lapse of time, disability or incapacity
Section 5-503Relation of attorney in fact to court-appointed fiduciary
Section 5-505Proof of continuance of durable and other powers of attorney by affidavit
Section 5-506Enforcement
Section 5-507Protection; third parties