2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §14-5419  Accounts

A. Every conservator must account to the court for the administration of the estate not less than annually on the anniversary date of qualifying as conservator and also on resignation or removal, and on termination of the protected person's minority or disability, except that for good cause shown upon the application of an interested person, the court may relieve the conservator of filing annual or other accounts by an order entered in the minutes.

B. The court may take such action as is appropriate upon filing of annual or other accounts. In connection with any account, the court may require a conservator to submit to a physical check of the estate in the conservator's control, to be made in any manner the court may specify.

C. An adjudication allowing an intermediate or final account can be made only upon petition, notice and a hearing. Notice must be given to:

1. The protected person.

2. A guardian of the protected person if one has been appointed, unless the same person is serving as both guardian and conservator.

3. If no guardian has been appointed or the same person is serving as both guardian and conservator, a spouse or, if the spouse is the conservator, there be no spouse or the spouse is incapacitated, a parent or an adult child who is not serving as a conservator.

4. A guardian ad litem appointed for the protected person, if the court determines in accordance with section 14-1403 that representation of the interest of the protected person would otherwise be inadequate.

D. An order, made upon notice and a hearing, allowing an intermediate account of a conservator, adjudicates as to the conservator's liabilities concerning the matters considered in connection therewith. An order, made upon notice and a hearing, allowing a final account adjudicates as to all previously unsettled liabilities of the conservator to the protected person or the protected person's successors relating to the conservatorship.

E. In any case in which the estate consists, in whole or in part, of benefits paid by the veterans administration to the conservator or the conservator's predecessor for the benefit of the protected person, the veterans administration office which has jurisdiction over the area is entitled to a copy of any account filed under chapter 5, article 4 of this title. Each year in which an account is not filed with the court, the conservator shall, if requested, submit an account to the appropriate veterans administration office. If such an account is not submitted as requested, or if it is found unsatisfactory by the veterans administration, the court shall, upon receipt of notice thereof, require the conservator forthwith to file an account with the court.