Parental authority and responsibility are inalienable and may not be transferred or renounced except in cases authorized by law. When a parent entrusts the custody of a minor to another, what is given is merely temporary custody. It does not amount to a renunciation of parental authority.

The couple got married in 1984 and were blessed with two daughters. The couple and their younger daughter stayed with the husband’s mother in the latter’s house in Manila, while the elder daughter was entrusted to the care and custody of the wife’s mother in Pampanga.