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Everything depends upon how vulnerable the person is. In the least serious situations, assistance and financial help may be sufficient to provide the essentials for daily living (help at home, income in the form of an allowance or benefit, insurance).
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The vulnerable person may also need protection. Depending upon the seriousness of their condition, whether physical or mental, a device offering legal protection may also be considered, namely a sauvegarde de justice [device for the judicial protection of incapable adults], a curatelle [temporary guardianship] or a tutelle [guardianship].
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Responsibility for putting in place any of these measures falls to the guardianship judge, who is based at the district court of the place in which the vulnerable person lives.
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Since February 26, 2016, a new judicial measure, family authorization, makes it possible to represent a vulnerable close without having to go through a measure of guardianship or curatorship (Ordinance n ° 2015-1288 of 15/10/15 and Decree n ° 2016-185 of 23/02/16). Only the children, the grandchildren, the parents, the grandparents, the brothers and sisters as well as the partner of PACS or the concubine can benefit from the measure. The measure requires a family consensus.