Text of the provision
Sec. 3. Article 236 of the same Code is also hereby amended to read as follows: "Art. 236. Emancipation shall terminate parental authority over the person and property of the child who shall then be qualified and responsible for all acts of civil life, save the exceptions established by existing laws in special cases. "Contracting marriage shall require parental consent until the age of twenty-one. "Nothing in this Code shall be construed to derogate from the duty or responsibility of parents and guardians for children and wards below twenty-one years of age mentioned in the second and third paragraphs of Article 2180 of the Civil Code."
An Act Lowering the Age of Majority from Twenty-One to Eighteen Years, Republic Act No. 6809 (1989). Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified word-for-word against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this section means
Emancipation ends parental authority over the young person and over his or her property, so that he or she becomes qualified and responsible for all acts of civil life, subject to exceptions in special laws. Even so, marrying still requires parental consent until the age of twenty-one, and parents and guardians keep the duties they owe for children and wards below twenty-one under the Civil Code provision on liability for damage.
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