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Florida State Courts System's Self-Help Center:
www.flcourts.org/resources-and-services/family-courts/family-law-self-help-information/family-law-forms.stml
{The Florida State Courts System's Self-Help Center is your online guide to help direct you through the court system. The role of the self-help center staff is to direct interested individuals to the self-help website where they can explore resources needed to represent themselves, access the courts, and other essential resources. Self-Help staff cannot provide legal interpretations or advice. The self-help website includes family law forms approved by the Florida Supreme Court. Additional resources include a directory of local self-help centers, web links to free and low cost legal aid, mediator search capabilities, and guardianship resources.}
Here is the manual for Guardianship in Florida:
www.fddc.org/sites/default/files/file/publications/Guardianship%20Family%20Manual_0.pdf
You most likely will need a lawyer to assist you in processing the guardianship petition through the court system. Also, (I didn't read the manual), but many states appoint a "Attorney Ad Litem" to represent the incapacitated parent during this process.
You will need to pay for your lawyer(s) out of your own money and not your parent's money; and someone will need to pay your parent's lawyer(s) from the parent's money. I don't know how much it will cost in Florida, it cost our family over $10,000 to petition for guardianship & conservatorship and we didn't even have to go through the whole process. The lawyers decided that Mom (age 86) was not able to handle her own affairs and since I had lived with her for 9 years and was already paying her bills, that I should remain Mom's Durable POA and that there was no need for guardianship or conservatorship. My Dad got conservatorship of his Mother (my Grandmother) because she was cashing her Social Security checks and giving the cash to my cousins and not paying her utilities or farm-related bills.
You need to have a PAPER TRAIL!!!! So buy a large daily planner and write down EVERYTHING that you do and everyone that you talk to and what they said (especially your parent since you are trying to prove that they are incapacitated and unable to take care of themselves or their finances).
You should send everything by CERTIFIED MAIL with a request for "Signature Upon Delivery" card attached so that you have proof that you mailed a form or paper. Please note that once you become the Guardian, you will need to make annual (yearly) reports to ALL Interested Parties (such as the court, lawyers, your siblings, etc.). You CAN NOT mix your parent's money with your own money once you become guardian. You will need to keep a separate checking account and be very accurate as to how you spend your parent's money as that is part of the annual report.
Hope that this information helps.