FAMILY MEETINGS (called, also, family councils).
In Louisiana. 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, begin ning with the nearest. The relation is pre ferred to the connection in the same degree ; and among relations of the same degree the eldest is preferred. The under-tutor must also be present. 6 Mart. La. N. s. 455.
The family nieeting 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 that purpose.
3. The members of the family meeting, be fore commencing their deliberations, take an oath before the officer before whom the meet ing is held, to give their advice according to i the best of their knowledge touching the n terests of the person respecting whom they are called upon to deliberate. The officer before whom the family meeting is held must make a particular proces-verbal of the deliberations, cause the members of the family meeting to sign it, if they know how to sign, and must sign it himself, and deliver a copy to the parties that they may have it bomologated. La. Civ. Code, art. 305-311 ; Code Civ. b. 1, tit. 10, c. 2, s. 4.