Section 6Part 2 — Duty to Maintain
Method of compelling performance of duties imposed by this Law
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Any person entitled to be maintained by any other person or persons under this Law, and any person having the actual care and custody of any child so entitled, may, in case the person or persons by whom such first mentioned person or such child is entitled to be maintained or some or one of them shall fail to maintain such person or child, make a complaint before any Justice, who shall thereupon enquire into the case, and if it shall appear to him that the complainant, or the child on whose behalf the complaint is made, is entitled to be maintained by the person or persons complained against and that such person or persons have neglected to comply with the requirements of this Law, he shall summon such last mentioned person or persons to appear before the summary court at a time and place to be named in such summons, to answer the matter of such complaint.