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Nevada high court panel calls for guardianship system reforms

• http://www.reviewjournal.com, By COLTON LOCHHEAD

The 236-page report comes as a culmination of 15 months' worth of commission meetings dating back to June 2015 and includes dozens of recommendations for changes in guardianship law, policy and court rules.

The 27-member commission was formed after a Review-Journal series highlighting the flaws and lack of oversight of the guardianship system in Clark County that watches over thousands of at-risk adults, called wards, who suffer from mental or physical incapacities.

Most notably, the report calls for all people under guardianship to have the right to an attorney, which is not currently granted in Nevada.

"I think that was a fundamental thing that was missing and could have avoided so many of the problems seen in the courts," commission member and Assemblyman Mike Sprinkle, D-Sparks, said Thursday.


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