§ 2881. Real estate; when may be sold
The probate court may authorize guardians to sell a part or all of the lands of their wards or the interest of such wards in real estate, vested or contingent, in the following cases:
(1) when the personal estate of a ward is insufficient to pay the expenses of maintaining the ward and his family, or of educating a minor ward as his circumstances require;
(2) when the personal estate of a ward is insufficient to pay his debts contracted before or after the appointment of his guardian;
(3) when it appears to the court conducive to the interest of the ward to sell the real estate, or an interest vested or contingent therein, and put the proceeds at interest or invest it in stocks or in real estate. (Amended 1979, No. 76, § 9.)