{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-30-30-3-119","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 30, § 30-3-119","heading":"Limitation of powers of guardian","body":"A guardian shall have no powers except as provided by the\n\nOklahoma Statutes or given to such guardian in the orders in the\n\nguardianship proceeding. This limitation of powers includes but is\n\nnot limited to the following:\n\n1. No guardian shall have the power to consent on behalf of the\n\nward to the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures\n\nas provided in the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act from the ward,\n\nexcept, in accordance with Section 3102.4 of Title 63 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes:\n\na. with specific authorization of the court having\n\njurisdiction over the guardianship proceedings which\n\nauthorization must be granted in a separate order and\n\nonly at such time as the ward is in need of life-\n\nsustaining treatment, and must include specific\n\nfindings of fact and conclusions of law based on the\n\nstandard established in Section 3101.16 of Title 63 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes,\n\nb. as authorized by an advance directive executed\n\npursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act,\n\nc. as authorized by a consent not to resuscitate made\n\npursuant to the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act, or\n\nd. to receive hospice services as authorized by a\n\nlicensed physician who determines the ward is\n\nterminally ill, as defined in Section 1-860.2 of Title\n\n63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, provided that withholding\n\nor withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures can be\n\nauthorized only in accordance with the provisions of\n\nthis paragraph;\n\n2. No guardian or court having jurisdiction of the guardianship\n\nproceeding shall have the power to consent on behalf of the ward or\n\norder the consent on behalf of the ward to the termination or\n\nrelinquishment of parental rights of the ward;\n\n3. Except in an emergency and only as necessary to preserve the\n\nlife of the ward, no guardian shall have the power to consent on\n\nbehalf of the ward to an abortion, psychosurgery, removal of a\n\nbodily organ, performance of any experimental biomedical or\n\nbehavioral procedure, or participation in any biomedical or\n\nbehavioral experiment, except with specific authorization of the\n\ncourt having jurisdiction of the guardianship proceeding;\n\n4. No guardian shall have the power to prohibit the marriage or\n\ndivorce of a ward except with specific authorization of the court\n\nhaving jurisdiction of the guardianship proceeding; and\n\n5. No guardian shall have the power to consent on behalf of the\n\nward to placement of the ward in a facility or institution to which\n\na person without a guardian would have to be committed pursuant to\n\nthe laws of this state absent formal commitment proceedings in which\n\nthe ward has independent counsel.","path":["OK Code","Title 30"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os30.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"e24b6e56b387987a736ef9a60ddb1667418585e0710301c79dca081d68e77466","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-30-30-3-118","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-30-30-3-120"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}