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AB-586: Rules for Professional Fiduciary Corporations
This law allows licensed professional fiduciaries to form corporations and updates rules about how courts appoint them.
What This Bill Does
- Allows licensed professionals to create a special type of corporation called a 'professional fiduciary professional corporation.'
- Requires these new corporations to register with the Secretary of State.
- Updates the definition of 'professional fiduciary' to include these new corporations.
- Changes court rules so judges can only appoint or keep someone as a guardian, conservator, trustee, or personal representative if they meet specific requirements.
- Adds failing to answer questions from regulators on time as a reason to suspend or revoke a license.
Who It Names or Affects
- Licensed professional fiduciaries who want to form corporations.
- The Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, which regulates these workers.
- Superior courts that appoint guardians and conservators.
- Officers, directors, shareholders, and employees of the new professional fiduciary corporations.
Terms To Know
- Professional Fiduciary
- A person or corporation licensed by the state to manage money or property for others who cannot do it themselves.
- Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act
- The existing law that sets rules for how professional corporations must be organized and run in California.
- Perjury
- A crime committed when someone lies under oath or gives false information on an official form, such as the annual statement filed with the bureau.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not list all the specific requirements a professional fiduciary must meet to be appointed by a court.
- It is unclear exactly which reason allows the state to avoid paying reimbursement costs to local agencies, as the text only says 'for a specified reason.'
- The Professional Fiduciaries Bureau established in this law will end on January 1, 2028.