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2006 Georgia Code - 13-3-24
13-3-24. (a) The contract of an insane, a mentally ill, a
mentally retarded, or a mentally incompetent person who has never
been adjudicated to be insane, mentally ill, mentally retarded, or
mentally incompetent to the extent that he is incapable of managing
his estate as prescribed by this Code is not absolutely void but
only voidable, except that a contract made by such person during a
lucid interval is valid without ratification. (b) After the fact that a person is insane,
mentally ill, mentally retarded, or mentally incompetent to the
extent that he is incapable of managing his estate has been
established by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state and
the affairs of such person are vested in a guardian, the power of
such person to contract, even though restored to sanity, shall be
entirely gone; any contracts made by such person shall be
absolutely void until the guardianship is dissolved. One may
recover for necessaries furnished an insane person, a mentally ill
person, a mentally retarded person, or a mentally incompetent
person upon the same proof as if furnished to minors.
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