Text of the provision

Art. 227. If the parents entrust the management or administration of any of their properties to an unemancipated child, the net proceeds of such property shall belong to the owner. The child shall be given a reasonable monthly allowance in an amount not less than that which the owner would have paid if the administrator were a stranger, unless the owner, grants the entire proceeds to the child. In any case, the proceeds thus give in whole or in part shall not be charged to the child's legitime.

(322a)

Family Code of the Philippines, Executive Order No. 209, approved July 6, 1987. The Code took effect on August 3, 1988 (Republic v. Orbecido III, G.R. No. 154380, October 5, 2005). Reproduced in full.

What this article means

The mirror image of Article 226: here the property belongs to the parents, and the child manages it. The net proceeds stay with the owner-parent, but the child who does the work must receive a reasonable monthly allowance — no less than what the parent would have paid a stranger doing the same job — unless the parent chooses to give the child the whole proceeds.

Whatever the child is given this way, in whole or in part, is treated as compensation, not an advance on inheritance — it "shall not be charged to the child's legitime."

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Cases interpreting this article

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