mentally incompetent
Example Sentences
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Can a power of attorney be rescinded after two doctors say someone is mentally incompetent?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
Will, rather than being deprived, simply had very particular rules about what he would eat, and whether or not his diet was killing him didn’t necessarily mean he was mentally incompetent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Mike Jeffries was declared "mentally incompetent" by a court in May and said to be suffering with dementia and late onset of Alzheimer's disease.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
Doctors there found he had serious hypertension, but also that he was mentally incompetent.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
And yet my parents thought I was mentally incompetent for buying clothes at Goodwill.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
