P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 741
Tutorship shall not belong to:
(1) Those subject to tutorship.
(2) Those who have been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor that implies moral depravation.
(3) Those sentenced to a term of imprisonment, until the sentence expires.
(4) Those legally removed from a former tutorship due to a failure to carry out their obligations, or deprived of patria potestas.
(5) Persons of bad conduct or who have no visible means of support.
(6) Bankrupts and insolvents not rehabilitated.
(7) Those who, at the time the tutorship is conferred, have a suit pending with the minor or formerly had such suit, regarding such minor’s civil status.
(8) Those in litigation or who have litigated with the minor over the ownership of his property, unless the father, or in a proper case, the mother, knowing thereof, shall have, nevertheless, named them tutor in their wills.
(9) Those who owe the minor important sums of money, unless, having a knowledge of such debts, the father, or in a proper case, the mother, shall have named them tutor in their wills.
(10) A testamentary tutor who neglects the fulfillment of the requirements indispensable to begin the exercise of their charges.
(11) Persons not residing in Puerto Rico.
(12) Those who have made any vicious and unjustified accusation against the minor or criminal charge against his ascendants or collaterals up to the fourth degree.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 195; June 4, 1983, No. 82, p. 186.