Section 1853 Of Chapter 2. Periodic Review Of Conservatorship From California Probate Code >> Division 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2.
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. (a) If the court investigator is unable to locate the
conservatee, the court shall order the court investigator to serve
notice upon the conservator of the person, or upon the conservator of
the estate if there is no conservator of the person, in the manner
provided in Section 415.10 or 415.30 of the Code of Civil Procedure
or in such other manner as is ordered by the court, to make the
conservatee available for the purposes of Section 1851 to the court
investigator within 15 days of the receipt of such notice or to show
cause why the conservatorship should not be terminated.
(b) If the conservatee is not made available within the time
prescribed, unless good cause is shown for not doing so, the court
shall make such a finding and shall enter judgment terminating the
conservatorship and, in case of a conservatorship of the estate,
shall order the conservator to file an account and to surrender the
estate to the person legally entitled thereto. At the hearing, or
thereafter on further notice and hearing, the conservator may be
discharged and the bond given by the conservator may be exonerated
upon the settlement and approval of the conservator's final account
by the court.
(c) Termination of the conservatorship under this section does not
preclude institution of new proceedings for the appointment of a
conservator. Nothing in this section limits the power of a court to
appoint a temporary conservator under Chapter 3 (commencing with
Section 2250) of Part 4.