Section 4Part 2 — Duty to Maintain
Duty of woman to maintain certain children
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Every widow and unmarried woman is hereby required to maintain her own children, legitimate or illegitimate, and every woman having any children which any man, under section 3, is primarily bound to maintain is hereby required to maintain such children in the event of such man failing to perform his obligation, and every woman is hereby required to maintain the legitimate children of any child that she may have had in the event of the parents of such children and of any man primarily bound under section 3 to maintain such children failing to do so, so long as such children respectively are, by reason of tender years or bodily or mental infirmity, unable to maintain themselves.
Cross References
- Section 3 of Maintenance Act
man primarily bound to maintain children