The Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana is hereby authorized in any case where the system is paying survivor benefits on behalf of surviving children based on Act No. 133 of the 1963 Regular Session of the Legislature as amended through Act No. 351 of the 1974 Regular Session of the Legislature, and said surviving child or children are emancipated or eighteen years of age or older, to pay the benefit or portion of the benefit which is for said surviving child or children directly to said child or children.
La. Consolidated Public Retirement § 11:763