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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:246"
article_number: "246"
status: active
heading: "Occasion for tutorship."
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title VIII › Chapter 1 › Section 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109502"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1924, No. 72."
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  - act_year: 1924
    act_number: 72
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# Art. 246. Occasion for tutorship.

The minor not emancipated is placed under the authority of a tutor after the dissolution of the marriage of his father and mother or the separation from bed and board of either one of them from the other.