Composition of the family council

The family council is made up of the five closest relatives to the minor residing within the jurisdiction of the court competent to carry out the inventory, three from the paternal line and two from the maternal line, with preference to the elder relatives in the same degree of relation. § 1 – If there are relatives only within one line of relation, the other members of the council will be appointed from the friends of the minor’s parents, with the difference that, in this case, even if the line in question is the maternal one, three members of the family council will be chosen from it. § 2 – Full blood siblings of either gender, or the husbands of full blood sisters, as their representatives, may all be members of the family council, even if they exceed the number of five; but if they total an even number, a further relative shall be called upon. § 3 – The composition of the family council may be changed whenever a relative requests to be admitted in place of an already appointed member, if he has a better title to be on the family council than the member in question, not precluding the decisions already taken by the family council, except if these were to the detriment of the minors.