Conservatorship
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A conservatorship is a court order that some property or a person be subject to the legal control of another person. Conservatorships were used by relatives and others for cult victims to be deprogrammed.
Lawyers for new religious groups such as the Unification Church argued that conservatorships should not be issued without the judge seeing the person in question and giving them a chance to produce expert testimony opposing the conservatorship. They argued that deprogrammers were abusing the mechanism of conservatorships to justify what would otherwise be called kidnapping and false imprisonment. Template:Law-stub