Section 2: Legal enjoyment

Legal enjoyment is attached to legal administration: it belongs either to the parents jointly or to whichever of them is responsible for the administration.

The right of enjoyment ceases: 1° As soon as the child has completed sixteen years of age or even earlier when he contracts marriage; 2° By causes which terminate parental authority or by those which terminate legal administration; 3° By causes which entail the extinction of any usufruct.

The charges for this enjoyment are: 1° Those to which usufructuaries are liable; 2° The child’s food, maintenance and education, according to his wealth; 3° The debts encumbering the estate received by the child insofar as they should have been paid out of the income.

Legal enjoyment does not extend to property: 1° Which the child may acquire through his work; 2° Which is given or bequeathed to him under the express condition that the parents will not enjoy it; 3° Which he receives by way of compensation for extrapatrimonial prejudice of which he has been the victim.