Critical interpretation of regulatory institutions of the children-parents relationships: custody and parental authority

Abstract

This article presents a critic panoramic from the academic and judicial doctrine in charge for interpreting the existing relationship between the regulatory institutions of the children-parents relationships from the Civil Code, as the custody and the parental authority. Evidencing the evolutive process of interpretation of these figures, and concluding with a call for the necessary interpretation tending to protect the children’s rights and everyone’s right to have a family.