La. Stat. tit. 9 § 195
Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Acts 1-3, 6-671
There shall be appointed for the children a provisional tutor in the manner herein directed, if at the time of the disappearance of the father, the mother should be dead, or if she should die before their attaining the age of majority.
La. R.S. § 9:195