The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Xavier I. Alexander.
DIGEST
SB 153 Engrossed 2020 Regular Session Foil
Present law (C.C. Art. 355) authorizes the parents or legal custodians of a person with intellectual
disabilities to petition for continuing tutorship.
Proposed law retains present law and authorizes parents who have never been married to each other
to petition for continuing tutorship.
Present law (C.C. Art. 356) requires the court to name one parent as tutor and the other parent as
undertutor.
Proposed law changes present law to allow the court to name parents as co-tutors when they petition
jointly or when it is in the best interest of the child.
Proposed law also provides for the naming of a tutor when one parent is dead, when the parents are
divorced or judicially separated, and when the parents were never married to each other. Effective August 1, 2020.
(Amends C.C. Arts. 355 and 356)