Succession of Miles

DeSONIER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment removing the father as tutor of his minor children in the succession of his late wife and appointing in his stead the children’s maternal grandmother as provisional tutrix.

The trial court, citing Code of Civil Procedure Article 4231, disqualified the husband finding him unfit to perform the duties of his office for willfully refusing to support the children, and attempting to lie about his conduct in that respect.

We affirm.

The parties were legally separated on November 15, 1973 and divorced on January 28, 1975. The wife was granted the care,…