---
kind: "unit"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
key: "ptIV/ch55"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 55"
heading: "Minors, Incompetents, and Other Wards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/ptIV-ch55"
sections_count: 11
---

# Chapter 55 — Minors, Incompetents, and Other Wards

Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits › Part IV — General Administrative Provisions

## Sections

- [§5501. Commitment actions](/usc/38/5501.md)
- [§5501A. Beneficiaries’ rights in mental competence determinations](/usc/38/5501A.md)
- [§5502. Payments to and supervision of fiduciaries](/usc/38/5502.md)
- [§5503. Hospitalized veterans and estates of incompetent institutionalized veterans](/usc/38/5503.md)
- [§5504. Administration of trust funds](/usc/38/5504.md)
- [§5505. Repealed.](/usc/38/5505.md)
- [§5506. Definition of “fiduciary”](/usc/38/5506.md)
- [§5507. Inquiry, investigations, and qualification of fiduciaries](/usc/38/5507.md)
- [§5508. Periodic onsite reviews of institutional fiduciaries](/usc/38/5508.md)
- [§5509. Authority to require fiduciary to receive payments at regional offices of the Department when failing to provide required accounting](/usc/38/5509.md)
- [§5510. Annual report](/usc/38/5510.md)