Chapter 13.Competencies in Civil Law
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Capacity (in clinical terms) or competence (in legal terms) refers to whether a person has the necessary abilities to adequately make a specific decision (such as to refuse psychiatric treatment) or complete a specific task (such as writing a will). Individuals are not incompetent simply because they have a mental illness. In clinical evaluations and as a matter of law, adults are presumed to be competent until adjudicated otherwise.
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