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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="13-605" title_number="13" title_name="Protection of Minors, Disabled Persons, Susceptible Adults, and Older Adults" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Financial Exploitation of Susceptible Adults and Older Adults">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An action may be brought under this subtitle by a susceptible adult or older adult or by a person serving in one or more of the following representative capacities for a susceptible adult or older adult:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An attorney in fact, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary acting on behalf of the susceptible adult or older adult, or a successor named in an instrument providing such authorization;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person authorized to make health care decisions for the susceptible adult or older adult, or a successor named in an instrument providing the authorization;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A spouse, parent, or descendent of the susceptible adult or older adult;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An individual who would qualify as the susceptible adult’s or older adult’s presumptive heir;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A person named as a beneficiary to receive any property, benefit, or contractual right on the susceptible adult’s or older adult’s death, including a person who would be a beneficiary but for the financial exploitation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The personal representative or special administrator of an estate of a deceased susceptible adult or older adult; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>A government agency that otherwise has authority and jurisdiction, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Securities Commissioner of the Division of Securities in the Office of the Attorney General.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A cause of action authorized under this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is in addition to and cumulative with any other criminal or administrative claims, causes of action at law or in equity, or remedies otherwise available to the susceptible adult or older adult, including an action under § 13–204 of the Commercial Law Article and § 11–209 of the Corporations and Associations Article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Shall survive the death of the susceptible adult or older adult.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
