The legal representative of a minor child is their parents or tutor.
The legal representative seeks to protect the interests of the child and the exercising of their rights. A child needs a representative because every minor who has not acquired legal capacity is only competent to take legal action in a manner appropriate to the intellectual and maturity levels of minors of their age. The legal representative represents the child until they reach the age of majority (i.e. 18), when the child acquires full legal capacity.
A legal representative or guardian is not authorised to make juridical acts on behalf of the person represented in matters relating to the formation and termination of marriage, the exercising of parental rights and duties, and the disposition mortis causa and declaration of disinheritance and their withdrawal.
A parent as the legal representative of a minor child
The tutor of a minor child
Termination of tutorship
The guardian of a child