La. Civ. Code art. 246
This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 246, part of Louisiana’s Civil Code — louisiana's civil law tradition codifies persons, property, obligations, and family relations here rather than in a separate statutory code.
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Occasion for tutorship.
Official statutory text
The minor not emancipated is placed under the authority of a tutor after the dissolution of the marriage of his father and mother or the separation from bed and board of either one of them from the other.
Amended by Acts 1924, No. 72.
Amended by Acts 1924, No. 72.
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