Practice question
A nineteen-year-old cannot fully take care of or protect herself from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of a proved mental condition. An organizer argues that RA 11596 can never apply to anyone eighteen or older. Which is correct?
- Everyone above eighteen is automatically outside the definition
- Every adult with any medical diagnosis is automatically a child
- Only a person’s marital status matters
- The statutory definition includes the specified eighteen-or-older inability-and-condition category, so age alone does not defeat coverage on these facts
- A private organizer may select the statutory definition
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2021/ra_11596_2021.html — RA 11596, sections 1–6 and 11
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1989/ra_6809_1989.html — RA 6809, majority at eighteen and preserved special marriage-consent rule
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