This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies. The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are to: Simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of missing individuals, protected individuals, and incapacitated individuals; Promote a speedy and efficient system for managing and protecting the estates of protected individuals so that assets may be preserved for application to the needs of protected individuals and their dependents; and Provide a system of general and limited guardianships for incapacitated individuals and coordinate guardianships and protective proceedings concerned with management and protection of estates of incapacitated individuals.
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