FLORIDA GUARDIANSHIP STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Allowable expenditures to lower assets in order to qualify for Medicaid are: -
✔✔2,500 Burial Savings Acct
Medical. Friendly annuities
Dental. Care
Guardian and atty fees
Prepaid. Irrevocable funeral
✔✔A guardian can be removed for any of the following - ✔✔
✔✔When dementia is caused by: - ✔✔Infection
medications
dehydration
head trauma
Endocrine
nutritional deficiencies ...
Its can be REVERSED
✔✔To document exploitation guardian should: - ✔✔Interview witnesses, list wards
assets pre and post, record effect on ward, get copies of bank statements
✔✔When making decisions for the ward, guardian should consider: - ✔✔Wards wishes,
finances, least restrictive alternative, level of care needed, assessments and
recommendations if professionals , credentials of facilities and caregivers
✔✔List 3 ways to obtain the value of wards real property: - ✔✔Formal appraisal
Realtors market analysis
Tax assessed value
✔✔What tasks does a HCS have the authority to perform? - ✔✔Consent/refuse
treatment
hire/fire doctors
apply benefits
authorize admission/discharge from facilities
authorize realize of info
make life sustaining decisions
✔✔The guardian may place some of the wards funds in the attorneys trust account for
______________before turning over the wards assets to successor guardian or PR of
estate. - ✔✔Guardian and attorney fees
, ✔✔What type of trust is established to transfer property ownership to avoid probate
after death ? - ✔✔LIVING TRUST
✔✔An individual must be mentally competent to set up these pre- capacity instruments:
- ✔✔DPOA
HCS
LIVING TRUST
CO-OWNER OF JOINT ACCOUNTS
✔✔How can the guardian determine wards wishes for final arrangements - ✔✔Ward -
through documents, family, spouse, clergy
✔✔What 3 sanctions can be imposed if a facility compels a patient to make an
advanced directive as a condition of admission ? - ✔✔Loss of license,
$1000 fine
Administrator jailed 6 mos
✔✔What could a guardian use to determine how long a ward might live ? - ✔✔Life
expectancy chart/ table
✔✔The court appointed attorney will be discharged after: - ✔✔They review and approve
INITIAL REPORT
✔✔Funds in a Special Needs Trust for a disabled person (D4A) may only be used to
pay for _______________ and may be used to pay for _____________________ for
the beneficiary . - ✔✔1. Items NOT covered under Medicaid
2. Pay guardian and attorney's fees, housing or car for beneficiary
✔✔Guardian of the person must obtain court approval before consenting to: -
✔✔Commit ward to Baker Act
Initiate divorce
Move ward to NON-adjacent county
Consent to terminate parental rights
Sterilization, abortion, experimental procedures, physo surgery
✔✔A person who is serving in the capacity of Guardian Advocate but has no other legs,
authority to act may NOT consent to the following: - ✔✔Abortion
Sterilization
Psychosurgery
Experimental treatment
Electro convulsive treatment
✔✔A Guardian can be removed for any of the following: - ✔✔Failure to fulfill
educational requirements
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Allowable expenditures to lower assets in order to qualify for Medicaid are: -
✔✔2,500 Burial Savings Acct
Medical. Friendly annuities
Dental. Care
Guardian and atty fees
Prepaid. Irrevocable funeral
✔✔A guardian can be removed for any of the following - ✔✔
✔✔When dementia is caused by: - ✔✔Infection
medications
dehydration
head trauma
Endocrine
nutritional deficiencies ...
Its can be REVERSED
✔✔To document exploitation guardian should: - ✔✔Interview witnesses, list wards
assets pre and post, record effect on ward, get copies of bank statements
✔✔When making decisions for the ward, guardian should consider: - ✔✔Wards wishes,
finances, least restrictive alternative, level of care needed, assessments and
recommendations if professionals , credentials of facilities and caregivers
✔✔List 3 ways to obtain the value of wards real property: - ✔✔Formal appraisal
Realtors market analysis
Tax assessed value
✔✔What tasks does a HCS have the authority to perform? - ✔✔Consent/refuse
treatment
hire/fire doctors
apply benefits
authorize admission/discharge from facilities
authorize realize of info
make life sustaining decisions
✔✔The guardian may place some of the wards funds in the attorneys trust account for
______________before turning over the wards assets to successor guardian or PR of
estate. - ✔✔Guardian and attorney fees
, ✔✔What type of trust is established to transfer property ownership to avoid probate
after death ? - ✔✔LIVING TRUST
✔✔An individual must be mentally competent to set up these pre- capacity instruments:
- ✔✔DPOA
HCS
LIVING TRUST
CO-OWNER OF JOINT ACCOUNTS
✔✔How can the guardian determine wards wishes for final arrangements - ✔✔Ward -
through documents, family, spouse, clergy
✔✔What 3 sanctions can be imposed if a facility compels a patient to make an
advanced directive as a condition of admission ? - ✔✔Loss of license,
$1000 fine
Administrator jailed 6 mos
✔✔What could a guardian use to determine how long a ward might live ? - ✔✔Life
expectancy chart/ table
✔✔The court appointed attorney will be discharged after: - ✔✔They review and approve
INITIAL REPORT
✔✔Funds in a Special Needs Trust for a disabled person (D4A) may only be used to
pay for _______________ and may be used to pay for _____________________ for
the beneficiary . - ✔✔1. Items NOT covered under Medicaid
2. Pay guardian and attorney's fees, housing or car for beneficiary
✔✔Guardian of the person must obtain court approval before consenting to: -
✔✔Commit ward to Baker Act
Initiate divorce
Move ward to NON-adjacent county
Consent to terminate parental rights
Sterilization, abortion, experimental procedures, physo surgery
✔✔A person who is serving in the capacity of Guardian Advocate but has no other legs,
authority to act may NOT consent to the following: - ✔✔Abortion
Sterilization
Psychosurgery
Experimental treatment
Electro convulsive treatment
✔✔A Guardian can be removed for any of the following: - ✔✔Failure to fulfill
educational requirements
