Proceedings As To The Child Whose Parents Are Separated. Appeal. - When Husband and Wife Are
Proceedings As To The Child Whose Parents Are Separated. Appeal. - When Husband and Wife Are
Proceedings As To The Child Whose Parents Are Separated. Appeal. - When Husband and Wife Are
Proceedings as to the child whose parents are separated. Appeal. — When husband and wife are
divorce or living separately and apart from each other, and the question as to the care, custody, and
control of a child or children of their marriage is brought before a Court of First Instance by petition or
as an incident to any other proceeding, the court, upon hearing the testimony as may be pertinent,
shall award the care, custody, and control of each such child as will be for its best interest, permitting
the child to choose which parent it prefers to live with if it be over ten years of age, unless the
parent so chosen be unfit to take charge of the child by the reason of:
Moral depravity,
Habitual drunkenness,
Incapacity, or
Poverty.
If, upon such hearing, it appears that both parents are improper persons to have the care, custody,
and control of the child, the court may either designate
To take charge of such child, or commit it to any suitable asylum, children's home, or benevolent
society.
The court may in conformity with the provisions of the Civil Code order either or both parents to
support or help support said child, irrespective of who may be it custodian, and may make any order
that is just and reasonable permitting the parent who is deprived of its care and custody to visit the
child or have temporary custody thereof. Either parent may appeal from an order made in
accordance with the provisions of this section. No child under seven years of age shall be separated
from its mother, unless the court finds there are compelling reasons thereof.
Section 7
Proceedings as to vagrant or abused child. — When the parents of any minor child are:
Dead; or
the proper Court of First Instance, upon petition filed by some reputable resident of the province
setting forth the facts, may issue an order requiring such parents to show cause, or, if the parents
are dead or cannot be found, requiring the fiscal of the province to show cause, at a time and place
fixed in the order, why the child should not be taken from its parents, if living; and if upon the hearing
it appears that the allegations of the petition are true, and that it is order taking it from its parents, if
living; and committing it to any suitable orphan asylum, children's home, or benevolent society or
person to be ultimately placed, by adoption or otherwise, in a home found for it by such asylum,
children's home, society, or person.
Section 8. Service of judgment. — Final orders or judgments under this rule shall be served by the
clerk upon the civil registrar of the city or municipality wherein the court issuing the same is situated.