LOUISIANA CIVIL CODE

BOOK I. OF PERSONS

TITLE VIII. OF MINORS, OF THEIR TUTORSHIP AND EMANCIPATION

CHAPTER 1. OF TUTORSHIP

SECTION 2. OF TUTORSHIP BY NATURE

Art. 250    Persons entitled to tutorship

Upon the death of either parent, the tutorship of minor children belongs of right to the other.  Upon divorce or judicial separation from bed and board of parents, the tutorship of each minor child belongs of right to the parent under whose care he or she has been placed or to whose care he or she has been entrusted;  however, if the parents are awarded joint custody of a minor child, then the cotutorship of the minor child shall belong to both parents, with equal authority, privileges, and responsibilities, unless modified by order of the court or by an agreement of the parents, approved by the court awarding joint custody.  In the event of the death of a parent to whom joint custody had been awarded, the tutorship of the minor children of the deceased belongs of right to the surviving parent.

All those cases are called tutorship by nature.

Amended by Acts 1924, No. 196;  Acts 1981, No. 283, § 1;  Acts 1982, No. 307, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983;  Acts 1983, No. 695, § 1.