2010 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 201 GUARDIANS AND CONSERVATORS
Section 6B Persons unable to make or communicate informed decisions; appointment of guardians

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2009. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 21. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 6B. The court may appoint a guardian for a person who is unable to make or communicate informed decisions due to physical incapacity or illness in a like manner, subject to the same limitations, and filed by such persons who may file a petition under section six. The court shall not appoint as guardian any person petitioning for guardianship who: (i) is currently being investigated or has charges pending for committing an assault and battery that resulted in serious bodily injury to the incapacitated or ill person; or (ii) is currently being investigated or has charges pending for neglect of the incapacitated or ill person. The court shall terminate a guardianship appointed under this section if, upon petition, it is established that the guardian is: (i) currently being investigated or has charges pending for committing an assault and battery that resulted in serious bodily injury to the incapacitated or ill person; or (ii) is currently being investigated or has charges pending for neglect of the incapacitated or ill person.