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Protection with advisor

You are a person of full age under the protection of an advisor

The "advisor to the person of full age" plan is ideal for a person with a mild intellectual deficit or someone who is temporarily incapacitated by illness.

You are able to take care of yourself but may find some situations overwhelming because you are not sure what decision to take. The protection plan with advisor to the person of full age means you have someone you can rely on to help you with perform certain tasks that you find too complex. Generally speaking, the decisions in which your advisor intervenes concern your property.

This limited form of protective supervision is the one that gives you most independence because:

you still make your own decisions;
you can vote, get married, get divorced and make a will without being represented by someone.

Your advisor's role

WARNING! Your advisor does not represent you. They are not allowed to sign a contract on your behalf.

Your advisor has to help you with certain administrative transactions and also ensure that you do not suffer any prejudice as a result of a transaction you undertook on your own.

The judge has decided which transactions you need help with or which ones you are able to handle alone.

If no instructions are specified in the judgment

Civil Code: The court gives no indication (article 293, 173 and 174)

You may sign a lease of up to three years or give away low-value items. However, your advisor's assistance is required for more far-reaching transactions such as:

lending or borrowing large amounts;
selling or mortgaging a piece of real estate;
renouncing a succession (refusing an inheritance);
accepting a gift that comes with obligations.

A transaction that you perform without help may only be annulled if it causes you harm.

Your file at the Curateur public

As soon as your protective supervision comes into force, a file is opened under your name at the Curateur public. A staff member is assigned to your file, and they are the person to contact if you need any information.

Will you always have an advisor?

Your protective supervision has to be reviewed every three years. If your medical and psychosocial assessments show that you no longer need protection, your protective supervision will end. If you require more protection, the court will place you under tutorship or curatorship.