Article 36. Administrative Procedural Dispositive Capacity

The ability to exercise rights and obligations in court shall belong to citizens who have reached the age of majority and to legal entities.

A minor may personally exercise his procedural rights and perform procedural duties in court from the time of marriage in the event that the law allows marriage before reaching eighteen years of age, as well as in the event that he is declared fully dispositive capable in the manner prescribed by law (emancipation).

The rights, freedoms and legally protected interests of a minor between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, as well as a citizen recognized as having limited dispositive capacity, shall be protected in court by their legal representatives (parents, adoptive parents, trustees, an administration of educational, medical institutions or other similar institutions). However, the court shall have the right to involve the minor himself or a citizen recognized as having limited dispositive capacity to participate in such cases.

In the events stipulated by law with regard to cases arising from administrative legal relations, a minor shall have the right to personally defend his rights and interests protected by law in court. However, the court shall have the right to involve the legal representatives of the minor in such cases.

The rights, freedoms and legally protected interests of a minor under the age of fourteen, as well as a citizen recognized as incapacitated due to a mental disorder (mental illness or dementia), shall be protected in court by their legal representatives.