West Virginia Code § 44-10-13

Powers of chancery courts over guardians; when and how real estate may
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be sold for maintenance and education of wards.
The circuit court, in chancery, may hear and determine all matters between guardians and
their wards, require settlement of the guardianship accounts, remove any guardian for
neglect or breach of trust, and appoint another, or order another to be appointed, in his
stead, and make any orders for the custody and tuition of an infant, and thee management,
preservation and investment of his estate; and when it shall be made to appear to the
satisfaction of a circuit court on a bill in chancery, or by petition in a surmmary way, filed for
the purpose by the guardian, that the proper maintenance and education, or other interests
of an infant, require that the proceeds of his real estate, beyond the annual income thereof,
should be applied to the use of such infant, it shall be lawful for the court to order the sale
of, or to authorize a loan upon, his real estate, or such part tthereof as may be necessary for
the purpose, and, from time to time, make such decrees and orders as may be proper to
secure the due application of the proceeds of such sale or loan; and to the extent that such
proceeds may be so applied they shall be deemed personal estate, but no further. Every bill
or petition filed under this section, and the proceedings thereon, shall conform to the
procedure provided by law for authority to sell the real estate of an infant.

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