KRS 384.050: Appointment of conservator for property of member of Armed Forces or

Merchant Seaman.

Whenever a person (hereinafter referred to as an absentee) serving in or with the Armed

Forces of the United States, or serving as a merchant seaman, has been report ed or listed

as missing, or missing in action, or interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered,

besieged, or captured by an enemy, and such person has an interest in any form of

property in this state or is a legal resident of this state and has not provi ded an adequate

power of attorney authorizing another to act in his behalf in regard to such property or

interests, the District Court of the county of such absentee's legal domicile or of the

county where such property is situated, upon petition alleging the foregoing facts and

showing the necessity for providing care of the property of such absentee, made by any

person who would have an interest in the property of the absentee were such absentee

deceased, or on the court's own motion, after notice to, or on receipt of proper waivers

from, the heirs and next of kin of the absentee as provided by law for the administration

of an estate, and upon good cause being shown, may, after finding the facts to be as

aforesaid, appoint a conservator to take charge of t he absentee's estate, under the

supervision and subject to the further orders of the court.