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The concept of parental authority, parental relationship, parental responsibility or duty-function has been a notion that has evolved from various perspectives. And it continues to evolve today. In Panama, the real and effective change, variation or transformation begins with the 1941 constitution, because the classification of legitimate and illegitimate children is eliminated and the free investigation of paternity is also allowed. In the explanatory statement of the Panamanian Civil Code there is a marked influence, with respect to this subject, of Roman law, but with a combination of the orientation of the French Civil Code of 1804, which exceptionally allowed some rights to the mother. The original wording of the concept of parental authority refers to the fact that the father and in the absence of it, the mother acquires all the rights with respect to the exercise of parental authority or parental relationship.
