Incompetent · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 1-2.9 Incompetent
An incompetent is a person judicially declared to be incapable of managing his affairs.
An incompetent is a person whom a court has declared incapable of managing that person’s own affairs. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Surrogate's Court: Court Rules & the EPTL; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.