Competence

NMSA 1978, § 43-1-5 — under Article 1.

NMSA 1978, § 43-1-5

Neither the fact that a person has been accepted at or admitted to a hospital or institutional facility, nor the receiving of mental health or developmental disability treatment services, shall constitute a sufficient basis for a finding of incompetence or the denial of any right or benefit of whatever nature which he would have otherwise. History: 1953 Comp., § 34-2A-4, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 279, § 4.