PRESUMPTION OF COMPETENCY
Known as the Texas Mental Health Code
The act spans §§ 571–580 (237 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case In the Interest of E.L.T. (2002)
Most recently applied in Reed v. Wright (January 2005)
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The provision of court-ordered, emergency, or voluntary mental health services to a person is not a determination or adjudication of mental incompetency and does not limit the person's rights as a citizen, or the person's property rights or legal capacity.
(b) There is a rebuttable presumption that a person is mentally competent unless a judicial finding to the contrary is made under the Estates Code.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.