RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 218 (SB 153) 2020 Regular Session Foil
Prior law (C.C. Art. 355) authorized the parents or legal custodians of a person with
intellectual disabilities to petition for continuing tutorship.
New law retains present law and authorizes parents who have never been married to each
other to petition for continuing tutorship.
Prior law (C.C. Art. 356) required the court to name one parent as tutor and the other parent
as undertutor.
New 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.
New 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)