Q: If someone is granted guardianship of an incapacitated individual and property would they inherit the property.
The property was my grandmothers and she left a beneficiary trust to my uncle and my mother.
A: No, not at all. When the ward dies, his or her estate is distributed according to the terms of the decedent's will or trust or both, depending on what kind of estate planning he or she had done. If in this case your ward placed his or her assets in a trust previously, and the trust provides for distribution to our under and mother (sounds like the ward might be your grandmother), then that is how his or her estate will be distributed.
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