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If an interested party is incompetent, who must be served? | NC

Pierce Law Group

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Q: If one of the interested parties has a guardian because they were found incompetent, who has to be served and who can respond on their behalf? A: In a surplus funds special proceeding, a person who has been adjudicated incompetent generally cannot act on their own. You still name that person as an interested party so they are bound by the clerk’s decision—but service and participation should…

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