Title IX — Parental Authority
Article 214
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If both parents are dead, absent, or declared incapacitated, parental authority over the minor child passes by law to the surviving grandparents (in the order they are nearest in degree). If there are several grandparents, the one named by the court exercises authority.
Official text — EO 209
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