The court grants a person the responsibility of caring for and protecting another.
A ward is also the name given to a child who is watched over by someone other than his parents. Sometimes children are known as “wards of the state,” meaning they have been taken from their homes.
To put it another way, the term “ward” refers to someone who has been placed in the care of a legal guardian by the courts. If a juvenile is being neglected or abused by his or her parents, or if he or she has been in conflict with the law, a government agency may temporarily take custody of him or her. This person is known as a “ward of the court”
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