As soon as possible after appointment, the guardian of a spendthrift shall give notice of the appointment as provided by the Rules of Probate Procedure and shall give similar notice that contracts made by the ward will be held void. Contracts, gifts, sales, or transfers of real or personal estate made by the ward after the date of appointment of the guardian shall be void. (Amended 1979, No. 76, § 18; 1985, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 126.)