The judge may, by way of exception and if the interests of the child so require, in particular where one of the parents is deprived of the exercise of parental authority, decide to entrust the child to a third party, preferably chosen from among the child’s relatives. The matter shall be referred to and decided in accordance with articles 373-2-8 and 373-2-11.
In exceptional circumstances, the family court judge who rules on how parental authority is to be exercised after the parents have separated may decide, while the parents are still alive, that in the event of the death of the parent exercising parental authority, the child will not be entrusted to the surviving parent. In this case, the court may designate the person to whom the child is temporarily entrusted.