Cap. 16 Art. 150When parental authority ceases ipso jure.

Parental authority ceases in each of the cases ipso jure following:

(a) on the death of both parents or of the child;

(b) when the child attains the age of eighteen years;

(c) on the marriage of the child;

(d) if the child, with the consent of the parents, has left the parental home and set up a separate domestic establishment;

(e) if the parents fail to make, in favour of the child, the registrations referred to in articles 2038 and 2039; sohowever that where only one parent has failed to make such registration, parental authority shall not cease in relation to the parent who has not so failed;

(f) if the surviving parent remarries or, in the case of an adoptive parent, if after the adoption he marries or remarries, without having first made an inventory of the property of the child and obtained from the court the requisite leave to continue in the exercise of the rights of parental authority.