Effect of appointment
61E Effect of appointment
A testamentary guardian of a child has all the powers, rights and responsibilities, for making decisions about the long-term care, welfare and development of the child, that are ordinarily vested in a guardian.Examples of matters concerned with a child’s long term care, welfare and development—the child’s education and religious upbringing
The appointment of a person as testamentary guardian of a child gives the person daily care authority for the child if and only if—
the child has no surviving parent; and
no-one else has daily care authority for the child (however described) under a decision or order of a federal court or a court of a State.
In this section—daily care authority, for a child, means—
the right to have the child’s daily care; and
the right and responsibility to make decisions about the child’s daily care.
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