199.1. The father or mother of a minor child or the child’s parents or one of them may designate a person to whom may be delegated or with whom may be shared the offices of legal tutor and of person having parental authority where it is impossible for them or for one of them to fully assume those offices or where there is disengagement toward the child.
Only the spouse of one of them, an ascendant of the child, a relative in the collateral line to the third degree, a spouse of that ascendant or relative or a member of the child’s foster family may be so designated as tutor.
2017, c. 122017, c. 12, s. 101; 2022, c. 222022, c. 22, s. 5711.