Excluded Guardians

In some states, a person may expressly disqualify certain persons from serving as his or her guardian should the need for a guardian ever arise.

This sets the stage for the following anecdote reported in Jerry Buchmeyer, Depositions v. Trials, 68 Tex. B.J. 655 (2005).

Jackson Wilburn of Dallas (Kenneth D. Martin & Associates) specializes in probate and estate planning, and he has his clients “fill out an estate planning questionnaire” — which includes the question, “Names of all persons you would NOT want to serve as guardian for you.”

Jackson says that, in the blanks, his client wrote, “Michael Jackson and Jack Kevorkian.”