178. Tutorship to minors is legal, suppletive or dative.
Tutorship resulting from the law is legal. Tutorship for which a tutor is designated by the father or mother or by the parents or one of them, as the case may be, is suppletive or dative; in the case of dative tutorship, the tutor may also be designated by the court.
1991, c. 64, a. 178; 2017, c. 122017, c. 12, s. 811; 2022, c. 222022, c. 22, s. 471.