A person who, without being incapable of acting himself, needs, for one of the reasons provided for in Article 425, to be assisted or controlled in a continuous manner in the important acts of civil life may be placed under curatorship.
Curatorship is ordered only if it is established that legal protection cannot provide sufficient protection.
A person who, for one of the reasons provided for in article 425, must be represented continuously in the acts of civil life, may be placed under guardianship.
Guardianship is pronounced only if it is established that neither safeguard of justice nor curatorship can provide sufficient protection.