Awards and sanctions

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  • (a) The court may award the prevailing party in any action brought under this chapter court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees. But an award of court costs or attorneys’ fees may not be paid out of the incapacitated person’s estate.

  • (b) The court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon a guardian who is found to be willfully isolating an incapacitated person and who has violated § 662 or who has violated an order issued pursuant to § 664, an appropriate sanction, including an order to pay court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees of the other party or parties. However, no sanction may be paid out of the incapacitated person’s estate.


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