CHAPTER 4 > EXTINGUISHMENT OF PARENTAL AUTHORITY
Art. 327. Parental authority terminates:
(1) Upon the death of the parents or of the child;
(2) Upon emancipation;
(3) Upon adoption of the child;
(4) Upon the appointment of a general guardian. (167a)
Art. 328. The mother who contracts a subsequent marriage loses the parental authority over her children, unless the deceased husband, father of the latter, has expressly provided in his will that his widow might marry again, and has ordered that in such case she should keep and exercise parental authority over their children.
The court may also appoint a guardian of the child's property in case the father should contract a subsequent marriage. (168a)
Art. 329. When the mother of an illegitimate child marries a man other than its father, the court may appoint a guardian for the child. (n)
Art. 330. The father and in a proper case the mother, shall lose authority over their children:
(1) When by final judgment in a criminal case the penalty of deprivation of said authority is imposed upon him or her;
(2) When by a final judgment in legal separation proceedings such loss of authority is declared. (169a)
Art. 331. Parental authority is suspended by the incapacity or absence of the father, or in a proper case of the mother, judicially declared, and also by civil interdiction. (170)
Art. 332. The courts may deprive the parents of their authority or suspend the exercise of the same if they should treat their children with excessive harshness or should give them corrupting orders, counsels, or examples, or should make them beg or abandon them. In these cases, the courts may also deprive the parents in whole or in part, of the usufruct over the child's property, or adopt such measures as they may deem advisable in the interest of the child. (171a)
Art. 333. If the widowed mother who has contracted a subsequent marriage should again become a widow, she shall recover from this moment her parental authority over all her unemancipated children. (172)
