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Welcome Members and Guests
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Members receive a complete and personalized experience with access to our message boards, legal updates, classified ads, job placement opportunities, upcoming training and certification information, and more!
| About the Association
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 The Association is composed of local government
officials and employees who provide services to the public through the offices
of Public Administrators, Public Guardians and Public Conservators. Established
over 30 years ago, the Association represents all the counties of the state of
California.
Collectively, the agencies act as the legal guardian or conservator for over 15,000 California residents and administer individual estates with a total value of over $250 million in cash and property.
To find out how to join the Association, please visit our membership application page for dues, membership levels, and an online application.
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Mission Statement
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 To enable County staff to provide the best conservatorship, guardianship and administrator services to their residents.- To establish the highest ethical standards for member and the
profession.
- To provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas.
- To provide quality training and certification processes.
- To lead the efforts to establish standards for conservatorship
and administrator services.
- To advocate for appropriate funding and services on behalf of
their clients, programs, and counties.
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| How does the Association carry out its
Mission?
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 The Association, with a broad membership base, is
organized into regions to ensure statewide participation in the regular meetings
and conferences held in the different counties. In addition
we:
- Provide quality training certified by the
Association to meet professional standards.
- Maintain liaisons with other professional
associations.
- Act as a source of information for our members on
legislation and new and effective programs.
- Act as consultants to local governments, at their
request, as they review Public Guardian, Public Conservator or Public
Administrator programs.
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| What does a Public Guardian or Public Conservator
do?
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 The Public Guardian or Public Conservator (PG/PC)
conducts the official County investigation into conservatorship matters. The
PG/PC also acts as the legally appointed guardian or conservator for persons
found by the Superior Courts to be unable to properly care for themselves or
their finances or who can't resist undue influence or fraud. Such persons
usually suffer from severe mental illness or are older, frail and vulnerable
adults.
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| What are the primary duties of a Guardian/Conservator?
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 The court can appoint a conservator of the person
only, or of both person and estate. The following is a brief summary of a
conservator's duties.
Conservatorship of the Person: The conservator
arranges for the client's care and protection, determines where he or she will
live and makes appropriate arrangements for health care, housekeeping,
transportation, and recreation.
Conservatorship of the Estate: The conservator
manages the client's finances, locates and takes control of the assets, collect
income due, pays bills, invests the client's money, and protects their
assets.
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What does a Public Administrator do?
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 The Public Administrator (PA) investigates and may
administer the estates of persons who die with no will or without an appropriate
person willing or able to act as administrator.
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| What are the primary duties of the Public Administrator?
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 The Public Administrator has the same duties and functions as private administrators. They are to:
- Protect the decedent's property from waste, loss or theft.
- Make appropriate burial arrangements.
- Conduct thorough investigations to discover all assets.
- Ensure that the estate is administered according to the decedent's wishes.
- Pay decedent's bills and taxes.
- Locate persons entitled to inherit from the estate and ensure that these individuals receive their inheritance.
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