New obligations have been added to the responsibilities of people appointed in New York as the legal guardians of others due to their incapacitation.
Guardians will now be required to notify people designated in an “order of appointment” of the incapacitated person’s transfer to a medical facility, their deaths, their funeral arrangements and their final resting places or the intended disposition of their remains, under a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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