Conservatorship

[TBenavidez]

If a conservatorship is set up for a disabled person, does it end when the disabled person dies? Does that conservator have the right to close joint bank accounts?

 

[ALawyer]

Yes, the conservatorship ends at death, although there may be follow-up reporting and a need for court approval of accounts.

If there is a joint account, with right of survivorship, the assets in it pass by operation of law to the survivor.