CC 355 - Petition for continuing or permanent tutorship - Louisiana Statutes

Art. 355. Petition for continuing or permanent tutorship

When a person above the age of fifteen possesses less than two-thirds of the average mental ability of a normal person of the same age, evidenced by standard testing procedures administered by competent persons, the parents of such person, or the person entitled to custody or tutorship if one or both parents be dead, incapacitated, or an absent person, or if the parents be judicially separated or divorced, may, with the concurrence of the coroner of the parish of the mentally deficient person's domicile, petition the court of that district to place such person under a continuing tutorship which shall not automatically end at any age but shall continue until revoked by the court of domicile.

Added by Acts 1966, No. 496, §2. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 714, §1; Acts 1991, No. 107, §1.