COURTS Juvenile Proceedings, Parental Rights: Provide for Stay of Certain Proceedings Regarding a Child Who May Be Incompetent; Provide for Competency Hearings and Notice and Procedures Relating to Hearings; Provide for Plan Managers, Competency Plans, and Meetings; Provide for Commitment of Child to Certain Agencies; Provide for Continuing Jurisdiction Over Children Determined to Be Incompetent

Authors

Jennifer Burch Dempsey

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The Act provides how and when a court can declare a child mentally incompetent at a delinquency or unruly conduct hearing. The Act sets forth procedures for a court to find a child incompetent and to declare any child who is determined to be mentally incompetent dependent on the court. The Act provides a mechanism for the development and implementation of a competency plan for the treatment, habilitation, support, or supervision of any child who the court deems incompetent to participate in an adjudication or disposition hearing.

Recommended Citation

Jennifer B. Dempsey, COURTS Juvenile Proceedings, Parental Rights: Provide for Stay of Certain Proceedings Regarding a Child Who May Be Incompetent; Provide for Competency Hearings and Notice and Procedures Relating to Hearings; Provide for Plan Managers, Competency Plans, and Meetings; Provide for Commitment of Child to Certain Agencies; Provide for Continuing Jurisdiction Over Children Determined to Be Incompetent, 16 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (1999).
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