So true. The Legislature needs to take this time to totaly revamp the previous law that allows a guardian to kill someone on heresay evidence. Thank God that we have a system of checks and balances...
Indeed, there need to be some major changes. I can understand not requiring such statements to be in writing, as it would be possible for someone to be capable of communicating but not capable of writing. But the circumstances where hearsay is acceptable should be very narrowly circumscribed, and rules of evidence explicitly written out, since it seems some judges are not capable of executing reasonable judgement in such matters.
Likewise, I think the guardian ad litem statutes need to be expanded to include a list--explicitly not exhaustive--of certain circumstances in which a judge would be required to find that a potential conflict of interest exists and thus to appoint a guardian ad litem.