Talk:Competence (law)

"7:30" exam?
What's the source of this term? I've heard it on Law & Order, sure, but Google doesn't reveal any results for the term besides this article. I assumed it was a section of U.S. Code, but then it would be "7.30 exam," not "7:30" like the time of day. --24.110.218.195 (talk) 03:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC) Answer: It may be California Evidence Code §730. It is common to file a motion or petition for the appointment of a "730 expert." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marceepoo (talk • contribs) 03:16, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Age restriction
Should a minimum age for legal competence be stated? --Lisa4edit (talk) 18:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Not unless you find a source for a particular jurisdiction or a article that gives that author's opinion of a practical age and you qualify the opinion as belonging to that author. As I understand it, most to all jurisdictions do not have a set age limit.  IMHO (talk) 00:15, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Canada
There should be a section on Canadian law if Canadian law is going to be mentioned in the lead. I don't know enough about Canadian law to do it myself, I only came to the article to read it and found myself curious about competence in Canada after reading the lead and then found myself disappointed when there's no Canada section in the article. Feralcateater000 (talk) 01:14, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Legal capacity
I think this article confuses competence and capacity. Capacity is the "legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities". I think, in some cases, both words are synonyms in American and Canadian law and, therefore, people are confusing both of them, aren't they? I ask this because in all the other wikis, competence is the distribution of jurisdiction - the power the State has to say the law (Juris dictio, to say the law in latin). So, Jurisdiction and competence make a kind of a pair: the State has Jurisdiction within its territory and it's exercised through various courts; the rules that dictate which court will act in each case is the competence. It's possible that American law is different in this aspect, so the wikidata should be altered so that this article don't point to the wrong articles in the other wikis.

Hope you can understand. I'm not a native english speaker.

--Hlges (talk) 16:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Competence to make treatment decisions
I believe we should add a section about competence to make treatment decisions, especially because it's mentioned in the United States section before the other competence subsections. I'll start drafting a section about this aspect of competence. Esaiter (talk) 22:35, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Advanced Forensic Psychology
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