{"id":30823,"date":"2025-11-18T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/?p=30823"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:07:39","slug":"if-i-die-who-will-take-care-of-my-children-can-i-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/if-i-die-who-will-take-care-of-my-children-can-i-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"If I die, who will take care of my children? Can I choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To ensure that children are entrusted to a trustworthy person in the event of the death of their parents, Portuguese law provides for the institution of guardianship. Parents may, by will, authentic or authenticated document, appoint a guardian responsible for the care of the child, generally until the child reaches the age of 18. In the absence of an appointment, and in the event of the death of both parents, it is up to the court to appoint the guardian.<\/p>\n

It is possible to appoint one or more people as guardians, and in principle, all individuals of legal age who are not legally prevented from doing so are eligible.<\/p>\n

The guardian assumes parental responsibilities, exercising them as if they were the child’s parent.<\/p>\n

It is also possible to appoint guardians to administer the assets of minors from a patrimonial perspective.<\/p>\n

For more information or specialised support, click here to schedule a meeting<\/a> with one of our professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To ensure that children are entrusted to a trustworthy person in the event of the death of their parents, Portuguese law provides for the institution of guardianship. Parents may, by will, authentic or authenticated document, appoint a guardian responsible for the care of the child, generally until the child reaches the age of 18. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria","areas-family-and-inheritance"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FPD.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30827,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823\/revisions\/30827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caiadoguerreiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}