Abstract – More than ten years after the reform of the protection system of incapacitated subjects, the analysis of the case lawyer highlights the persisting difficulty of delimiting with reasonable completeness the scope of application of the different safeguard institutions and, in particular, the risk of a undue overlap between the measure of the support administration and that of the interdiction. The uncertain operational delimitation of these institutions, together with the procedural criticalities that often condition their activation, do not seem to be overcome through a more careful use of the tools of hermeneutics, and therefore suggest a decisive intervention by the legislator.
Keywords – Inability, weak subjects, legal protection, reform