P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 64
While any child which shall have been placed in such asylum or other institution as a pauper, in pursuance of § 63 of this title, shall remain therein at the expense of the municipality to which such pauper child is chargeable, the mayor of such municipality may, in his/her discretion, remove such child from such asylum or other institution and place such child in some other such institution, or to make such other disposition of such child as shall then be provided by law. The name of no such child shall be changed while in such institution as in this section aforesaid. But no parent of such pauper child, so in such asylum or other institution as in this section aforesaid, shall be entitled to the custody thereof except in pursuance of a judgment or order of a court or judicial officer of competent jurisdiction, adjudging or determining that the interests of such child will be promoted thereby, and that such parent is fit, competent and able to duly maintain, support and educate such child.
History —Mar. 10, 1904, p. 55, § 5.