Ark. Code § 20-49-101

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 20-49-101 - Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Court" shall mean circuit court;

(2) "Guardian" shall mean one appointed to have the care and custody of the person of an incompetent person; and

(3) "Incompetent person" shall mean a person as to whom it is proved:

(A) He or she is incapable of caring for himself or herself by reason of intellectual and developmental disability, mental illness, imbecility, idiocy, or other mental incapacity;

(B) He or she manifests sexual inclinations which make it probable that he or she will procreate children unless he or she is rendered incapable of procreation; and

(C) There is no probability that his or her condition will improve so that he or she will become capable of caring for himself or herself.

Ark. Code § 20-49-101

Amended by Act 2019, No. 1035,§ 48, eff. 7/24/2019.

Acts 1971, No. 433, ch. 5, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 59-501.