RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 123 (SB 61) 2024 Regular Session Foil
Existing law (C.C. Arts. 354-362) provides for the continuing or permanent tutorship for
certain children with intellectual disabilities or mental deficiencies.
New law (C.C. Art. 354) provides for either a full or limited continuing tutorship for certain
children with disabilities.
New law (C.C. Art. 355) provides for the additional applicability of full or limited continuing
tutorship to unemancipated minors above the age of 15 who possess less than two-thirds of
the adaptive functioning of a person of the same age with average adaptive functioning.
New law (C.C. Art. 356) clarifies that full and limited continuing tutorship does not apply
to persons over the age of majority.
New law (C.C. Art. 357) specifies applicability of both full and limited continuing tutorships.
New law (C.C. Art. 358) provides for the authority, privileges, and duties of tutors and
undertutors for full continuing tutorship.
New law (C.C. Art. 358.1) provides for the authority, privileges, and duties of tutors and
undertutors for limited continuing tutorship in accordance with the decree of tutorship.
New law (C.C. Art. 358.2) provides for the termination of full and limited continuing
tutorships.
New law (C.C. Art. 359) restricts the legal capacity of a person under full continuing
tutorship to that of an unemancipated minor or any lesser capacity as provided in the decree
of tutorship. New law further provides for the restriction of legal capacity of a person under
limited continuing tutorship to that provided in the decree.
New law (C.C. Art. 360) makes technical conforming amendments.
New law (C.C. Art. 361) makes technical conforming amendments.
New law (C.C. Art. 362) makes technical conforming amendments.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends C.C. Arts. 354-362)