The legal representation of the minor is an imperative and a general attribute of the parental authority. It compensates the general incapacity of the minor exceeding the classical distinction between parental authority over the person and parental authority over the goods, but it is inseparably linked with the power of direction and control over the person of the child. It remains however subject to division regarding the determination of legal representative or the regime of legal acts. As a parental prerogative, it is implemented in an authoritarian way because the will of the minor is excluded, but the moderation of the power and the association mitigate the constraints of the representation. In spite of the obligations that legal representation implies, the domestic and parental nature of the prerogative contribute furthermore to limit the control exercised over it
The legal representation of the minor under parental authority