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Why read this guide? Like many people, you may never have been a guardian of someone else's property before. That's why we created Managing someone else's money: Help for court-appointed guardians of property and conservators. This guide will help you understand what you can and cannot do in your role as a guardian. In that role, you are a fiduciary. For this guide, a fiduciary is anyone named to manage money or property for someone else. You'll find brief tips to help you avoid problems and resources for finding more information. This guide is for family and friends serving as a guardian of property, not for professionals or organizations. The guide does not give you legal advice. State laws vary, so you may have additional duties. Talk to a lawyer if you have questions about your duties.

Why read this guide? Like many people, you may never have been a representative payee or VA fiduciary before. That's why we created Managing someone else's money: Help for representative payees and VA fiduciaries. This guide will help you understand what you can and cannot do in your role as a representative payee or VA fiduciary. In both these roles, you are a fiduciary. For this guide, a fiduciary is anyone named to manage money or property for someone else. You'll find brief tips to help you avoid problems and resources for finding more information. This guide is for family and friends serving as a representative payee or VA fiduciary, not for professionals or organizations. The guide does not give you legal advice. State laws vary, so you may have additional duties. Talk to a lawyer if you have questions about your duties.

Why read this guide? Like many people, you may never have been an agent under a power of attorney before. That's why we created Managing someone else's money: Help for agents under a power of attorney. This guide will help you understand what you can and cannot do in your role as an agent. In that role, you are a fiduciary. For this guide, a fiduciary is anyone named to manage money or property for someone else. You'll find brief tips to help you avoid problems and resources for finding more information. This guide is for family and friends serving as an agent, not for professionals or organizations. The guide does not give you legal advice. State laws vary, so you may have additional duties. Talk to a lawyer if you have questions about your duties

Why read this guide? Like many people, you may never have been a trustee under a revocable living trust before. That's why we created Managing someone else's money Help for trustees under a revocable living trust. This guide will help you understand what you can and cannot do in your role as a trustee. In that role, you are a fiduciary. For this guide, a fiduciary is anyone named to manage money or property for someone else. You'll find brief tips to help you avoid problems and resources for finding more information. This guide is for family and friends serving as a trustee, not for professionals or organizations. The guide does not give you legal advice. State laws vary, so you may have additional or different duties. Talk to a lawyer if you have questions about your duties.

In Section 1028(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Congress instructs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "Bureau") to study "the use of agreements providing for arbitration of any future dispute . . . in connection with the offering or providing of consumer financial products or services," and to provide a report to Congress on the same topic. This document presents the results of that study. The advantages and disadvantages of pre-dispute arbitration provisions in connection with consumer financial products or services - whether to consumers or to companies - are fiercely contested. Consumer advocates generally see pre-dispute arbitration as unfairly restricting consumer rights and remedies. Industry representatives, by contrast, generally argue that pre-dispute arbitration represents a better, more cost-effective means of resolving disputes that serves consumers well.1 With limited exceptions, however, this debate has not been informed by empirical analysis. Much of the empirical work on arbitration that has been carried out has not had a consumer financial focus. The present study is empirical, not evaluative. Although the report covers a wide range of topics, its uniform and consistent focus is on understanding the facts surrounding the resolution of consumer financial disputes - both in arbitration and in the courts - through a careful analysis of empirical evidence. Our results reflect what we believe is the most comprehensive empirical study of consumer financial arbitration carried out to date.