Roy v. West

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a “guardian ad litem need not possess any special qualifications,” but must 26 “be truly dedicated to the best interests of the person on whose behalf he seeks to litigate”
• explaining that, while a general guardian has general control of the ward’s person and estate, a guardian ad litem is appointed by the court to appear in a lawsuit on behalf of an incompetent or minor person
• “A person’s capacity to sue is measured by the standard of the law of his domicile.”
• “The court can remove or replace the guardian ad litem 3 if . . . [she] faces a conflict of interest”
• “A general guardian is ‘[a] guardian who has general care and control of the 1 ward’s person and estate.’” (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014)) (alteration in 2 original)
• “[B]ecause a non-lawyer has no authority to appear as an attorney for others than himself, if a guardian ad litem is not a lawyer, he or she must be represented in turn by counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).