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What is mentally incompetent?

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Mental incompetence is the inability of a person to make or carry out important decisions regarding his or her affairs. An individual is defined as mentally incompetent if he/she is manifestly psychotic or otherwise of unsound mind, either consistently or sporadically, by reason of mental defect. Few examples of such mental defect are retardation, schizophrenia, and dementia. Only a court may declare someone mentally incompetent, after a judicial hearing and testimony from competent medical authority.

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