Guardianship as Last Resort: Designing Federal Participation in State Guardianship of Veterans
Identification
- Public canonical key
- doi:10.2139/ssrn.7676363
- Authors
- Marshall Wilde
- Reported year
- 2026
- Reported language
- en · und
- Source type
- posted-content
- First detected
- 2026-11-09T19:04:47.501319+00:00
- Last metadata observation
- 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
- Last HTTP verification
- Not checked
Documentary abstract — original language
Some veterans are medically ready to leave a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital but cannot consent to a placement and have no one with legal authority to decide for them. They wait, sometimes for months, in acute-care beds they no longer need. In March 2026, the Department of Justice and VA agreed that VA attorneys, appointed as Special Assistant United States Attorneys, may petition state courts for guardianship of these veterans. A five-site VA pilot accompanies the agreement, and its charter reaches veterans in the community who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. This Article treats the initiative as a first national framework for a real and costly problem and asks what a durable program would require. Moving a hospitalized veteran into the community and moving a veteran from the community into supervised care are different problems, and the same least-restrictive-alternative analysis imposes heavier conditions on the second. The Article identifies five legal questions, from statutory authority to state procedural law. It proposes limited authorizing legislation, a public rule, a pre-filing protocol, limited orders, counsel for respondents, a bar on seeking voting restrictions, support for state guardians of last resort, and outcome measures.
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.7676363
- OPENALEX
- W7225253863
Documentary context
- Documentary family
- Working paper
- Source-reported types
- posted-content · preprint
- Publishers
- Elsevier BV
Entity mentions are not evidence of legal recognition. Jurisdiction studied is separate from author affiliation country.
Sources
Crossref · Record 1
OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2
Documentary field provenance
Source-backed values and values with unresolved provenance are kept separately. Bibliographic provenance validates no legal claim.
- Title
- Documentary source reported
- Publication
- Documentary source reported
- Authors
- Documentary source reported
- Document type
- Documentary source reported
- Jurisdiction
- Not recorded
- Court
- Not recorded
- Issuing authority
- Not recorded
- Publisher
- Documentary source reported
- DOI
- Documentary source reported
- ISBN
- Not recorded
- Official identifier
- Not recorded
- Source URL
- Documentary source reported
- Source-reported status
- Not recorded
- Amendment / repeal
- Not recorded
Cite this reference
Marshall Wilde. Guardianship as Last Resort: Designing Federal Participation in State Guardianship of Veterans. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7676363
JSON · CSL-JSON · BibTeX · RIS · CSV · JSON-LD ·
APA, Chicago, ISO 690: bibliographic formats using available fields. OSCOLA / Bluebook: structured data only; full legal citation compliance is not claimed without verification of required elements.
- APA
- Marshall Wilde. (2026). Guardianship as Last Resort: Designing Federal Participation in State Guardianship of Veterans. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7676363
- Chicago
- Marshall Wilde. Guardianship as Last Resort: Designing Federal Participation in State Guardianship of Veterans. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7676363
- ISO 690
- Marshall Wilde. Guardianship as Last Resort: Designing Federal Participation in State Guardianship of Veterans. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7676363
UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. Guardianship as Last Resort: Designing Federal Participation in State Guardianship of Veterans. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-e295127495c89ffd2133fd8d64068a95/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed
Field provenance and record version
Version e6b753d3d0a26497 · udtr-reference-1.1.2
- Title
- Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:47.501319+00:00 - Authors
- Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:47.501319+00:00 - Year
- Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:04:47.501319+00:00 - Identifiers
- Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
Crossref cached metadata · source · 2026-11-10T01:23:49.641986+00:00
Multiple reported values; disagreement retained. - Source URL
- Crossref · source · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
Crossref cached metadata · source · 2026-11-10T01:23:49.641986+00:00 - Source-reported author ORCID
- Crossref cached metadata · source · 2026-11-10T01:23:49.641986+00:00
History tracks record metadata and does not certify the state of the law.
a89abd8dd6e0709b · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
c37cd364abc1db12 · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
5ef4cd16939b5723 · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
e6b753d3d0a26497 · 2026-11-10T01:26:20.344565+00:00
Research dossiers and documentary relations
Source roles
Bibliographic / original publication source · https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7676363
Discovery source · https://openalex.org/W7225253863
An authority link alone does not verify a legal claim. Abstracts and full texts remain subject to their source terms.
Documentary status
Outside legal scope after review
Library
This identity is not yet included in the Legal Library.