Text of the provision

Art. 230. Parental authority is suspended upon conviction of the parent or the person exercising the same of a crime which carries with it the penalty of civil interdiction. The authority is automatically reinstated upon service of the penalty or upon pardon or amnesty of the offender.

(330a)

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

A conviction carrying the accessory penalty of civil interdiction (imposed for the graver penalties) suspends — does not permanently end — parental authority, because an interdicted person loses, among other things, authority over their children during the sentence.

The suspension is temporary and self-correcting: authority is automatically reinstated once the penalty is served, or upon pardon or amnesty. No fresh court order is needed to restore it.

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Cases interpreting this article

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