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- D.C. Code § 21-1102 · Persons received in Forest Haven; age limit
- D.C. Code § 21-1103 · petition as to substantial retardation; contents; verification; notice;process
- D.C. Code § 21-1104 · Summons; contents; answer not required; return day; service
- D.C. Code § 21-1105 · Appointment and qualifications of physicians; examination; certificate
- D.C. Code § 21-1106 · Warrant to take into custody; detention or temporary guardianship; place of detention
- D.C. Code § 21-1107 · Hearing; continuances; character of proofs; jury trial
- D.C. Code § 21-1108 · Dismissal and discharge, or placement in Forest Haven; controlling considerations
- D.C. Code § 21-1108A · Voluntary admission to Forest Haven
- D.C. Code § 21-1109 · Private and public patients; bond for support and maintenance; sufficiency and justification of sureties.
- D.C. Code § 21-1110 · Liability of estate of public patient for maintenance.
- D.C. Code § 21-1111 · Proceedings to charge relatives legally responsible for maintenance of public patient; collection of maintenance payments; enforcement of order; liability of decedent’s estate.
- D.C. Code § 21-1112 · Public patients may become private patients by filing bond and paying advance.
- D.C. Code § 21-1113 · Restrictions on discharge; petition for discharge; causes for discharge; superintendent to be notified; notice of variation of order; denial on petition not a bar to another.
- D.C. Code § 21-1114 · Proceeding when child brought before the Family Division appears to have at least a moderate intellectual disability.
- D.C. Code § 21-1115 · Inquiry under this chapter if person convicted of offense.
- D.C. Code § 21-1116 · Transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital when person becomes insane
- D.C. Code § 21-1117 · Separate docket of cases brought under section 21-1103; reports of commissions
- D.C. Code § 21-1118 · Transfer of substantially retarded from National Training Schools for Boys or Girls
- D.C. Code § 21-1119 · Removal from school of nonresidents of the District of Columbia.
- D.C. Code § 21-1120 · Paroles; conditions; expense; discretion of superintendent; violation; return
- D.C. Code § 21-1121 · Citation, order, or process on patients to be served only by superintendent
- D.C. Code § 21-1122 · Approval of patients’ contracts, etc., by court
- D.C. Code § 21-1123 · Offenses and penalties
- D.C. Code § 21-1201 · Definitions.
- D.C. Code § 21-1202 · Self-administration of medication by program participants.
- D.C. Code § 21-1203 · Administration of medication to program participants by trained employees.
- D.C. Code § 21-1204 · Requirements of medication orders.
- D.C. Code § 21-1205 · Rules and regulations for implementation.
- D.C. Code § 21-1206 · Fees.
- D.C. Code § 21-1301 · Appointment of committee
- D.C. Code § 21-1302 · Bond; powers and duties
- D.C. Code § 21-1303 · Jurisdiction of court over property
- D.C. Code § 21-1304 · Discharge
- D.C. Code § 21-1501 · Appointment of conservators
- D.C. Code § 21-1502 · Filing of petition; requirements; time and place of hearings; appointment of guardian ad litem
- D.C. Code § 21-1503 · Bond; powers and duties
- D.C. Code § 21-1504 · Discharge
- D.C. Code § 21-1505 · Appointment of temporary conservator
- D.C. Code § 21-1506 · Personal welfare of person under conservatorship
- D.C. Code § 21-1507 · Lis pendens
- D.C. Code § 21-1701 · Definitions.
- D.C. Code § 21-1702 · Application of payment made to fiduciaries.
- D.C. Code § 21-1703 · Transfer of negotiable instruments by fiduciary.
- D.C. Code § 21-1704 · Check drawn by fiduciary payable to third person.
- D.C. Code § 21-1705 · Check drawn by and payable to fiduciary.
- D.C. Code § 21-1706 · Deposit in name of fiduciary as such.
- D.C. Code § 21-1707 · Deposit in name of principal; check drawn thereon by fiduciary; check payable to drawee bank.
- D.C. Code § 21-1708 · Conforming amendment.
- D.C. Code § 21-1709 · Deposit in names of two or more trustees.
- D.C. Code § 21-1710 · Law not retroactive.
- D.C. Code § 21-1711 · Cases not provided for by chapter.
- D.C. Code § 21-1712 · Short title.
- D.C. Code § 21-1721 · Investment of trust assets.
- D.C. Code § 21-1722 · Prohibition from exercising powers conferred upon trustee.
- D.C. Code § 21-1801 · Charitable and split-interest trusts.
- D.C. Code § 21-1901 · Petition for appointment of receiver, where absentees interested in property; Corporation Counsel as party
- D.C. Code § 21-1902 · Warrant to United States marshal; fees of marshal
- D.C. Code § 21-1903 · Notice of hearing to absentee and interested parties
- D.C. Code § 21-1904 · Time of hearing; publication and posting of notice
- D.C. Code § 21-1905 · Appointment of receiver; bond; finding of date of disappearance
- D.C. Code § 21-1906 · Transfer of property to receiver; schedule of property
- D.C. Code § 21-1907 · Possession, by receiver, of additional property; collection of debts
- D.C. Code § 21-1908 · Procedure where absentee left only debts due him; appointment of receiver
- D.C. Code § 21-1909 · Care, custody, sale of property
- D.C. Code § 21-1910 · Support of absentee’s spouse and minor children
- D.C. Code § 21-1911 · Receiver may adjust claims of or against estate
- D.C. Code § 21-1912 · Compensation of receiver; interest of absentee in property to cease after fourteen years
- D.C. Code § 21-1913 · Distribution after fourteen years as if absentee had died intestate
- D.C. Code § 21-1914 · Time for distribution and accounting when receiver not appointed within thirteen years
- D.C. Code § 21-1915 · Construction with other laws
- D.C. Code § 21-2001 · Rule of construction; purposes.
- D.C. Code § 21-2002 · Supplementary general principles of law applicable.
- D.C. Code § 21-2003 · Standard of proof.
- D.C. Code § 21-2004 · Effect of a finding of incapacity.
- D.C. Code § 21-2011 · Definitions.
- D.C. Code § 21-2021 · Territorial application.
- D.C. Code § 21-2022 · Practice in court.
- D.C. Code § 21-2023 · Jury trial.
- D.C. Code § 21-2024 · Appeals.
- D.C. Code § 21-2031 · Notice; method, contents, and time of giving.
- D.C. Code § 21-2032 · Notice; waiver.
- D.C. Code § 21-2033 · Guardian ad litem; counsel; visitor.
- D.C. Code § 21-2034 · Request for notice; interested person.
- D.C. Code § 21-2041 · Procedure for court-appointment of a guardian of an incapacitated individual.
- D.C. Code § 21-2042 · Notice; guardianship proceeding.
- D.C. Code § 21-2043 · Who may be guardian; priorities.
- D.C. Code § 21-2044 · Findings; order of appointment.
- D.C. Code § 21-2045 · Acceptance of appointment; consent of jurisdiction.
- D.C. Code § 21-2045.01 · Mandatory court review of guardianships.
- D.C. Code § 21-2046 · Temporary guardians.
- D.C. Code § 21-2047 · Powers and duties of general guardian and limited guardian.
- D.C. Code § 21-2047.01 · Limitations on temporary, limited, and general guardians.
- D.C. Code § 21-2047.02 · Powers and duties of emergency and health-care guardians.
- D.C. Code § 21-2048 · Termination of guardianship for incapacitated individual.
- D.C. Code § 21-2049 · Removal or resignation of guardian; termination of incapacity.
- D.C. Code § 21-2051 · Protective proceedings.
- D.C. Code § 21-2052 · Original petition for appointment or protective order.
- D.C. Code § 21-2053 · Notice.
- D.C. Code § 21-2054 · Procedure concerning hearing and order on original petition.
- D.C. Code § 21-2055 · Permissible court orders.