435.340 - Legal capacity of person with mental retardation or person with a related condition unimpaired unless adjudicated incompetent. - Nevada Statutes

435.340  Legal capacity of person with mental retardation or person with a related condition unimpaired unless adjudicated incompetent.  Neither voluntary admission nor judicial commitment nor any other procedure provided in this chapter may be construed as depriving a person with mental retardation or a person with a related condition of the person’s full civil and legal rights by any method other than a separate judicial proceeding resulting in a determination of incompetency wherein the civil and legal rights forfeited and the legal disabilities imposed are specifically stated.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1617; A 1999, 2602)