Can I Get a Guardianship Over a Mentally Ill Person?

2025-06-18T09:29:24+00:00June 18th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

It seems obvious that a person who has a severe mental illness, such as chronic schizophrenia, would be the exact type of person for whom a guardianship would be appropriate.  The Texas Estates Code seems to support this position.  To create a guardianship, the person must be "incapacitated" which the statute defines for an adult [...]