The purpose of the Probate Court is as follows:

• Proper administration of decedent's estates
• To hear petitions for adoption
• Grant marriage licenses
• Determine need for involuntary hospitalization in mental illness cases
• To hear change of name petitions
• To direct and control the conduct of fiduciaries in decedent's estates
• Guardianships
• Trusts
• Conservatorships
• To hear applications for appointment of guardian
• To grant declaratory judgements
• To hear complaint as to continuation, use, withdrawal, or withholding life sustaining treatment with persons terminally ill or permanently unconscious state
• To authorize sale of land and completing of contracts by administrators, executors, or guardians
• To hear petition for withdrawal of hydration nutrition for certain persons, in permanently unconscious states