Q: Office of the Public Guardian for Elderly Adults in NJ is my mom’s guardian. I don’t want this. How can I change it?
A: The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is designed to act as a surrogate decision-maker for residents of our state who are 60 years old and over, who have been deemed incapacitated by a superior court judge. When a judge deems someone incompetent to handle his / her affairs, the court then appoints a guardian and I gather in your mother's case, the court appointed OPG to act as her guardian. If you do not want OPG to be your mother's guardian, then you have the right to petition the court to change the guardianship arrangement and seek to have the court appoint you or someone else as her guardian.
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