family meetings

FAMILY MEETINGS. Family councils, or family meetings in Louisiana, are 
meetings of at least five relations, or in default of relations of minors or 
other persons on whose interest they are called upon to deliberate, then of 
the friends of such minors or other persons. 
     2. The appointment of the members of the family meeting is made by, the 
judge. The relations or friends must be selected from among those 
domiciliated in the parish in which the meeting is held; the relations are 
selected according to their proximity, beginning with the nearest. The 
relation is preferred to the connexion in the same degree, and among 
relations of the same degree, the eldest is preferred. The under tutor must 
also be present. 6 N. S. 455. 
     3. The family meeting is held before a justice of the peace, or notary 
public, appointed by the judge for the purpose. It is called for a fixed day 
and hour, by citations delivered at least three days before the day 
appointed for the purpose.' 
     4. The members of the family meeting, before commencing their 
deliberations, take an oath before the officer before whom the meeting is 
held,, to give their advice according to the best of their knowledge, 
touching the interests of the person on whom they are called upon to 
deliberate. The officer before whom the family meeting is held, must make a 
particular process-verbal of the deliberations, cause the members of the 
family meeting to sign it, if they know how to sign, he must sign it 
himself, and deliver a copy to the parties that they may have it 
homologated. Civil Code of Louis. B. 1, tit. 8, c. 1, s. 6, art. 305 to 311; 
Code Civ. B. 1, tit. 10, c. 2, A. 4.