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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:257",
  "article_number": "257",
  "heading": "Surviving parent's right of appointment.",
  "text": "The right of appointing a tutor, whether a relation or a stranger, belongs exclusively to the father or mother dying last.\n\nThe right of appointing a tutor, whether a relation or a stranger, also belongs to a parent who has been named the curator for the other living spouse, when that other living spouse has been interdicted, subject only to the right of the interdicted parent to claim the tutorship should his incapacity be removed by a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.\n\nThis is called tutorship by will, because generally it is given by testament; but it may likewise be given by any declaration of the surviving father or mother, or the parent who is the curator of the other spouse, executed before a notary and two witnesses.",
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      "number": "I",
      "name": "Of Persons"
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "VIII",
      "name": "Of Minors, of their Tutorship and Emancipation"
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      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "1",
      "name": "Of Tutorship"
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      "number": "3",
      "name": "Of the Tutorship by Will"
    }
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      "act_year": 1974,
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Amended by Acts 1974, No. 142, §1.",
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