A contract can ordinarily be disaffirmed at any time during minority or for a reasonable time after the minor comes of age. Note that disaffirmance must be timely. The contract may be enforceable. If the buyer paid with a check, this could offer further proof of the contract. As for a remedy, a court might order specific performance.
Specific performance calls for the performance of an act promised in a contract.
The remedy is available in some cases if a contract involves a sale of unique goods. A contract entered into by a mentally incompetent that has not been so adjudged by a court is voidable at the option of the person if the person does not know that he or she is entering into the contract or lacks the mental capacity to comprehend its nature, purpose, and consequences. The contract might be deemed valid and enforceable, however, if the person comprehended the nature, purpose, and consequences of the contract at the time that it was formed. Taking the buyer s son at his word that the buyer was not lucid when he agreed to the purchase would indicate that the contract is voidable. The buyer will win because such excuses as this do not discharge a contract.