Administration of the assets of absentee, where the children are major or emancipated

Where the children are major or they get emancipated, they may take charge of the assets allotted to them and administer them as their own, but, they shall not be entitled to alienate them before the expiry of ten years from the time of disappearance of the absentee or from the date one last heard of him, except in cases specified and in the manner prescribed in Article 76 and its paragraph. § Sole paragraph - The assets likely to perish or to deteriorate and those whose maintenance is costly, may be alienated on those grounds, before the period prescribed, with prior permission from the Court. The sale proceeds shall be invested productively.