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  • 1guardian — guard·ian / gär dē ən/ n: one who has or is entitled or legally appointed to the care and management of the person or property of another compare committee, conservator, curator, receiver …

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  • 2Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá — A seminal document, written in three stages by Abdu l Bahá. Several sections were written under imminent threat of harm. The first section was probably written in 1906. This document constitutes one of the central and defining pieces of Bahá í… …

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  • 3Legal guardian — A legal guardian is a person who has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to care for the personal and property interests of another person, called a ward. Usually, a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of… …

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  • 4Guardianship Tribunal of New South Wales — The Guardianship Tribunal of New South Wales is a specialist disability tribunal for people with cognitive disabilities. The Tribunal appoints guardiansand financial managers as substitute decision makers, consents to medical treatment for people …

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  • 5APOTROPOS — ( Guardian ). The Concept The term apotropos (Heb. סֹופ ֹור ְט ֹופַא) for guardianship in Jewish law is derived from the Greek ἁπότροπος and means the father of minors or the guardian or custodian of another s affairs (see Maimonides to Mishnah,… …

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  • 6Guardianship, in Civil Jurisprudence — • A person intrusted by law with the interests of another whose youth, inexperience, mental weakness or feebleness of will, disqualifies him from acting for himself in the ordinary affairs of life, and who is known as the ward Catholic… …

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  • 7Selected court cases in the Terri Schiavo case — Guardianship challengedOn February 14, 1993, Terri s husband, Michael Schiavo, and the Schindlers had a falling out; Mr. Schiavo claimed the argument arose due to his refusal to share the settlement money with the Schindlers. The Schindlers claim …

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  • 8Bahá'í history — is often traced through a sequence of leaders, beginning with the Báb s May 23 1844 declaration in Shiraz, and ultimately resting on an administrative order established by the central figures of the religion. The religion had its background in… …

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  • 9International child abduction in Japan — Main article: International child abduction Protesters of abduction of children to Japan at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear In Washington D.C. International child abduction in Japan refers to the illegal international abduction or removal …

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  • 10Conservatorship — is a legal concept in the United States of America, where an entity or organization is subjected to the legal control of an external entity or organization, known as a conservator. Conservatorship is established either by court order (with… …

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