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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 958<\/a> and 997<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":161415,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55701,"identifier":"16.1-359","token":"16.1\/11\/18\/16.1-359","url":"\/16.1-359\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/16.1-359\/","token":"16.1\/11\/18\/16.1-359","dublin_core":{"Title":"Litigating certain issues when the juvenile is incompetent","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 16.1-359","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A finding<\/span> of incompetency does not preclude the adjudication, at any time before trial<\/span>, of a motion<\/span> objecting to the sufficiency of the petition<\/span>, nor does it preclude the adjudication of similar legal objections which, in the court<\/span>’s opinion<\/span>, may be undertaken without the personal participation of the juvenile.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nLITIGATING CERTAIN ISSUES WHEN THE JUVENILE IS INCOMPETENT (\u00a7 16.1-359)\n\nA finding of incompetency does not preclude the adjudication, at any time before\ntrial, of a motion objecting to the sufficiency of the petition, nor does it\npreclude the adjudication of similar legal objections which, in the\ncourt’s opinion, may be undertaken without the personal participation of\nthe juvenile.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, cc. 958, 997.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}