This document discusses parental authority over the property and earnings of unemancipated children under Philippine law. It covers several key points: 1) Parents jointly exercise legal guardianship over the property of their unemancipated common child. The father's decision prevails in cases of disagreement. 2) A child's independently earned income or property belongs to the child. 3) If parents entrust management of their property to an unemancipated child, the net proceeds belong to the owner but the child must be given reasonable support. 4) Parental authority can be terminated by emancipation of the child, adoption, or appointment of a guardian, or suspended if the

1. Effect of Parental
Authority Upon the
Property of the Children
CHAPTER 4
By: PAULA MARIE M. LLIDO

2. UNEMANCIPATED
CHILD
is a child that is considered,
by law, to be under the
financial care of his or her
parents.

3. ARTICLE 225
The father and the mother
shall jointly exercise legal
guardianship over the property
of their unemancipated common
child without the legal
necessity of a court
appointment. In case of
disagreement, the father’s
decision shall prevail, unless
there is a judicial order to
the contrary.

4. Child’s annual income -
^ Php 50,000.00
Parent concerned shall
furnish a bond in such
amount , but not less
than 10 %

5. Verified petition for
approval of the bond
shall be filed in the
proper court of the
place where the child
resides.

6. The ordinary rules on
guardianship shall be
merely suppletory
Except when the child is:
•Under substitute parental
authority
•Guardian is stranger
•Parent has remarried

7. ARTICLE 226
The property of the
unemancipated child earned or
acquired with his work or
industry or by onerous or
gratuitous title shall belong
to the child in ownership and
shall be devoted exclusively
to otherwise.

8. ARTICLE 227
If the parents entrust the management
or administration of any of their
properties to an unemancipated child,
the net proceeds of such poverty
shall belong to the owner.
The child shall be given a reasonable
monthly allowance in an amount not
less than which the owner would have
paid if the administrator were a
stranger

9. unless the owner grants the entire
proceeds to the child.
The proceeds thus given in a whole or
in part shall not be charged to the
child’s legitime.

10. Suspension
or Termination of
Parental Authority
CHAPTER 4

11. Upon the death of the
parents;
Upon the death of the
child; or
Upon emancipation of the
ARTICLE 228
Parental authority terminates
permanently:
1
2
3

12. 1 Upon adoption
of the child
ARTICLE 229
Unless subsequently revived by
a final judgment, parental
authority also terminate;
2 Upon appointment of
a
general guardian
3 Upon judicial
declaration of abandonment
of the child in the case
filed for the purpose
4 Upon final judgment
of
a competent
5 Upon judicial declaration or
absence of incapacity of
the person
exercising parental

13. Parental authority is
suspended upon conviction of
the parent exercising the same
of a crime which carries with
it the penalty civil
interdiction. The authority is
automatically reinstated upon
service of the penalty or upon
ARTICLE 230

14. ARTICLE 231
The court in an action filed
for the purpose or in a
related case may also suspend
parental authority if the
parent or the person
exercising the same:
1 Treats the child with
excessive hardness or
cruelty;
2 Gives the child
corrupting
order, counsel or
example;
3 Compels the child
to beg;
or
4 Subjects the child
or
allows him to be
subjected to acts
of

15. If the person exercising
parental authority has
subjected the child or
allowed him to be subjected
to sexual abuse, such
person shall be permanently
deprived by the court of
ARTICLE 232

16. The person
exercising
substitute parental
authority shall
have the same
authority over the
ARTICLE 233

17. In no case shall the school
administrator, teacher or
individual engaged in child
care and exercising special
parental authority, inflict
corporal punishment upon the
child. (n)
ARTICLE 233