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  "article_index": "AGE-119",
  "catalog_id": "AGE-119",
  "language": "en",
  "headline": "Guardianship and representation: what law and individual circumstances determine",
  "description": "Assistance, powers, duties and review of representation while retaining an older person’s voice.",
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  "master_revision": "staging-r1-20261019",
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  "short_answer": "Helping carry out an activity, conveying someone’s words and deciding on their behalf are different roles. Lawful grounds and limits require examination for the task and jurisdiction. Kinship, age, diagnosis or an informal title do not automatically establish them. Accessible participation, proper performance and review matter; this article conducts no home assessment and grants no authority to sign, access funds or cancel an appointment independently.",
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "C01",
      "type": "author_distinction",
      "text": "Assistance with performance, conveying words and representative decisions require distinct roles.",
      "source_ids": [
        "G1",
        "G4"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "I. A role's name does not explain its content",
        "II. Supporting an activity and replacing a decision are different changes",
        "VIII. Representing another person does not mean becoming them"
      ],
      "limitations": "Zinaida/Roman are fictional; no determination of the reader’s status."
    },
    {
      "id": "C02",
      "type": "bounded_official_information",
      "text": "In the GOV.UK example, a deputy receives authority from the Court of Protection and an order describing what is permitted and prohibited.",
      "source_ids": [
        "G1"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "III. Authority comes through applicable law rather than family certainty",
        "IV. Read a document for the action, conditions and limits"
      ],
      "limitations": "No universal guardianship form, unexamined foreign procedure or review of a personal document."
    },
    {
      "id": "C03",
      "type": "bounded_official_information",
      "text": "GOV.UK requires considering capacity for each decision and helping understanding; appointment does not remove attention to participation.",
      "source_ids": [
        "G2",
        "G4"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "V. A representative continues to establish the person's position"
      ],
      "limitations": "No home capacity assessment or mechanical transfer of British criteria to another country."
    },
    {
      "id": "C04",
      "type": "author_practical_reasoning",
      "text": "Conflicts of interest, an understandable record and accessible examination remain separate questions after appointment.",
      "source_ids": [
        "G2",
        "G3"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "VI. Responsibility includes conflicts of interest and an understandable record",
        "VII. Examination and review are not betrayal"
      ],
      "limitations": "Family/inheritance interests do not prove abuse; a report does not guarantee a proper decision."
    },
    {
      "id": "C05",
      "type": "author_distinction",
      "text": "A document accepted, explanation obtained and assistance actually provided are different results.",
      "source_ids": [
        "G1",
        "G2"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "IX. Legal arrangements serve a life wider than documents"
      ],
      "limitations": "No guaranteed decision or service availability; essential present care must not stop for a dispute."
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    {
      "question": "Can a relative decide everything after being asked to help with bills?",
      "answer": "That request does not establish powers in every area. Clarify the action, person’s position and applicable grounds.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C01",
        "C02"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "I. A role's name does not explain its content",
        "II. Supporting an activity and replacing a decision are different changes",
        "IV. Read a document for the action, conditions and limits"
      ]
    },
    {
      "question": "Does a representative stop considering the person’s view after appointment?",
      "answer": "The article retains participation and attention to the particular decision; British examples show continuing duties. Application requires local competence.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C03"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "V. A representative continues to establish the person's position"
      ]
    },
    {
      "question": "Does completing paperwork establish that the task is resolved?",
      "answer": "Documentation, understood scope, a worker accepting the task and accessible assistance need separate checking. Convey uncertainty about authority to a competent service; immediate danger needs appropriate urgent assistance.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C04",
        "C05"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "VII. Examination and review are not betrayal",
        "IX. Legal arrangements serve a life wider than documents"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "G1",
      "title": "GOV.UK — Deputies: Overview",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy",
      "edition": "Current read version, update date not established",
      "read_scope": "Main68–139, licence210; not linked forms/statute/cases or Scotland/NI procedures",
      "role": "Particular Court of Protection deputy model, scope and other assistance; no universal guardianship model",
      "rights_status": "OGL-3.0_EXCEPT_STATED_EXCEPTIONS",
      "read_date": "2026-10-19",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch F author",
      "rights_notes": "Original attributed short paraphrase/minimal quotation; own RU/TH translations; no full text/forms/images/logos; RESEARCH.md"
    },
    {
      "id": "G2",
      "title": "GOV.UK — Deputies: Responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy/responsibilities",
      "edition": "Current read version, update date not established",
      "read_scope": "Main68–99; linked code/standards not read",
      "role": "Decision-specific duties, interests, communication support, records; no general restraint authority or treatment cancellation",
      "rights_status": "OGL-3.0_EXCEPT_STATED_EXCEPTIONS",
      "read_date": "2026-10-19",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch F author",
      "rights_notes": "Original attributed short paraphrase/minimal quotation; own RU/TH translations; no full text/forms/images/logos; RESEARCH.md"
    },
    {
      "id": "G3",
      "title": "GOV.UK — Deputies: Supervision, support and visits",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/become-deputy/supervision-support-and-visits",
      "edition": "Current read version, update date not established",
      "read_scope": "Main68–95; licence181; no onward full standards",
      "role": "OPG examination/support and possible court request; no guaranteed result or worldwide service",
      "rights_status": "OGL-3.0_EXCEPT_STATED_EXCEPTIONS",
      "read_date": "2026-10-19",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch F author",
      "rights_notes": "Original attributed short paraphrase/minimal quotation; own RU/TH translations; no full text/forms/images/logos; RESEARCH.md"
    },
    {
      "id": "G4",
      "title": "NHS — Mental Capacity Act",
      "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/social-care-and-support/making-decisions-for-someone-else/mental-capacity-act/",
      "edition": "Reviewed2024-01-17, due2027-01-17",
      "read_scope": "Main12–175/date178–179 actually read same session for AGE-118; no onward statute/cases",
      "role": "Bounded British decision/participation example, not home capacity assessment or foreign law",
      "rights_status": "UNKNOWN",
      "read_date": "2026-10-19",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch F author",
      "rights_notes": "Original attributed short paraphrase/minimal quotation; own RU/TH translations; no full text/forms/images/logos; RESEARCH.md"
    },
    {
      "id": "G5",
      "title": "Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan, chapter XVI",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm",
      "edition": "1651; PG transcription from Pelican Classics/first edition; electronic update not established",
      "read_scope": "Title/transcriber0–36; selected1900–1905 and1910–1946; not whole book",
      "role": "Actor/author/commission critical comparison; historical guardianship/liability not adopted as current norms; short epigraph",
      "rights_status": "UNKNOWN_FOR_DIGITAL_EDITION_AND_GLOBAL_JURISDICTIONS",
      "read_date": "2026-10-19",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch F author",
      "rights_notes": "Original attributed short paraphrase/minimal quotation; own RU/TH translations; no full text/forms/images/logos; RESEARCH.md"
    },
    {
      "id": "G6",
      "title": "Luke 16:1–13, King James Version",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+16%3A1-13&version=KJV",
      "edition": "KJV on Bible Gateway",
      "read_scope": "Complete selected49–69; KJV/Public Domain75–77; not whole chapter",
      "role": "Steward/faithfulness Christian context, no deceit justification, financial protocol or power expansion; short key quotation",
      "rights_status": "PAGE_MARKED_PUBLIC_DOMAIN_GLOBAL_JURISDICTIONS_NOT_ASSESSED",
      "read_date": "2026-10-19",
      "search_executor": "Codex web.run / branch F author",
      "rights_notes": "Original attributed short paraphrase/minimal quotation; own RU/TH translations; no full text/forms/images/logos; RESEARCH.md"
    }
  ],
  "retrieval_limits": [
    "Fictional example, not an individual finding of condition, appointment or abuse.",
    "Names and powers vary across jurisdictions; GOV.UK/NHS provide no procedure for all countries.",
    "No home capacity test, individual legal advice or authority to sign/access information/funds/cancel a document.",
    "No cancellation of necessary care/treatment, dangerous trials of independence or provocation for evidence.",
    "Hobbes and Luke replace no law/professional assessment and justify no deceit, attribution of every representative’s liability to the person or expansion of powers as reward."
  ],
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