201. The right to appoint a tutor belongs exclusively to the last surviving person among the father and mother or among the parents or to the last person among them who is able to exercise tutorship, as the case may be, if that person has retained legal tutorship to the day of their death.
Where the father and mother or the parents die simultaneously or lose the ability to exercise tutorship during the same event, each having designated a different person as tutor, and both persons accept the office, the court decides which person will exercise it.
1991, c. 64, a. 201; 1998, c. 51, s. 23; I.N. 2014-05-01; 2022, c. 222022, c. 22, s. 6611.