In re Tutorship of La Fauci Children

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Ruth Jones Davis, instituted these tutorship proceedings in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, endeavoring to qualify as natural tutrix of her four minor children.

An exception to the jurisdiction of the court ratione materiae was pleaded by the minors’ brother, August David La Fauci, plaintiff’s oldest child who has been emancipated by marriage, and by Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Terrebonne, residents of Jefferson Parish who have had custody of the minors since the year of 1959. They asserted that the minors’ domicile is located in Jefferson Parish; therefore,…