Abstract
The competent minor is a person endowed with the natural capacity to understand and wish the legal acts performed. Therefore, there is a general trend to recognize progressive legal capacity to these minors, especially in all that concerns the exercise of personal rights. The Spanish Law takes into account the category of the competent minor in a dispersed and heterogeneous way, and grants legal capacity to act in accordance with the age or the degree of maturity. This paper will explain the contemporary legal framework of the minors as well as the different assumptions in which the Spanish Civil Code and other special laws recognize his legal capacity, paying particular attention to the right to informed consent of the competent minor in Medical Law.
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