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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55701</law_id><section_number>16.1-359</section_number><catch_line>Litigating certain issues when the juvenile is incompetent</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="18">Juvenile Competency</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">finding</span> of incompetency does not preclude the adjudication, at any time before <span class="dictionary">trial</span>, of a <span class="dictionary">motion</span> objecting to the sufficiency of the <span class="dictionary">petition</span>, nor does it preclude the adjudication of similar legal objections which, in <span class="dictionary">the court</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">opinion</span>, may be undertaken without the personal participation of the juvenile.</p></section></text><history>1999, cc. 958, 997.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
