LA PATRIA POTESTAD PRORROGADA O REHABILITADA.

Abstract

Parental authority may be extended at a child's attainment of majority, either by delaying majority should the child have been incapacitated while a minor, or by reinstating minority should the child be incapacitated after attaining majority and in addition meet the requirements of being unmarried and living in the parental home. This study will look at both means of extending parental authority as an alternative to other protective institutions (guardianship and curatorship), as regulated in our Civil Code. Special reference will be made to the positions currently espoused by legal thought and case-law. A succinct discussion of the regulations existing in other domestic bodies of law and foreign bodies of law akin to ours is included.