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Guardianship
Guardianship is a court arrangement that gives one person legal authority to care for another, often a child or an elder. It carries strict deadlines, extension limits, and annual reporting, which is why it is the hardest workflow to track by hand.
In tribal courts, guardianship is usually the busiest corner of the family docket, and the clock-heavy one: temporary orders expire on fixed schedules, extensions are counted against limits in the code, and guardians owe the court periodic accounts.
Every one of those clocks comes from the tribe's own ordinances, so the numbers differ from nation to nation. Tracking them by hand means a calendar, a binder, and one person who knows the code by heart.
Software carries the workflow when it computes each deadline from your code, cites the section it came from, and keeps every order and notice on a record that proves itself.