The Guardianship System Law bill was sent to the Upper House where it has
been continued to the next term. What do you expect from the next session of the Diet?
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Mr. Iwasawa
Last year, we expected the bill to be taken up first thing and approved in the
current session. Some rather crucial issues saturated this
session from its beginning and the bill was not taken up until
late June. The Association began preparations to meet every need
which might be required once the law is enacted, establishing
guardianship legal support center as a public corporation
(See Footnote 2). The Association had completed basic
preparations and if the Diet had passed the bill by July
or August, we were ready to process notarized certifications for
guardianship contractors. Yet, we are still catching up in terms
of details and the practical handling of the preparation of
application formats and registration procedures among
judicial scriveners, assuming that the Supreme Court will
promulgate the law and the implementation takes place in April
next year.
Footnote 2: Adult Guardianship and Legal Support
Center
This is an organization which the Association of the
Judicial Scriveners has been trying
to establish. The Center
is expected to train and supervise caretakers, supervise
care, undertake asset management, conduct actual guardianship
implementation as a corporation, organize and conduct seminars
sending lecturers to various meetings, provide
comprehensive insurance and other guardianship
activities.
Let us hear more about the Guardianship Legal Support Centers to be established by the Association.
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Mr. Iwasawa
Fortunately, there is an excellent coordination effort nationwide for this
project, although we must admit that there are some technical
problems that need to be solved in providing legal support. For
instance, we need to determine the nature of the relationship
between headquarters and branch offices. The question is how to
make the branch offices that have been contact points for many
years into more independent units. Another problem is the
decision-making procedures, which we feel require step- by- step
solutions as we face concrete cases day by day.
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