DCC 3103 Lecture 10: parental authority

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Droit (Certificat)
• Course: DCC 3103
• Professor: francois simard

Document Summary

An attribute that parents have over their children. Do not confuse parental authority and legal tutorship. The tutor of the child (the parents) they are exercising the rights of the child not the parents rights. Parental authority de nes the rights and obligations of parents over their child ( rights they have over their child and exercising). There is a relationship there common dominator is that parental authority befalls on the parents just like the tutorship falls on the parents. General principle (597): every child regardless of their age owes respect to their parents. The idea of respect is subordinated to the authority of his parents. 598: you are subject to parental authority until you are full age. A child remans subject to the authority of his mother and father until majority or emancipation. 599: de ne the rights and obligation son the parents towards their child.