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Structural division: BOOK V › party › CHAPTER II › Section III
Article 658 — Failure to Maintain.
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
Whoever, without good cause:
a) refuses or omits to provide maintenance which he owes, by virtue of law, to entitled persons, even to a spouse who brought action for divorce, until such divorce is pronounced; or
b) fails to meet the financial obligations he has incurred, by virtue of law or formal undertaking, towards a woman whom he has made pregnant out of wedlock, or towards a person with whom he has lived in an irregular union, is punishable, upon complaint, with fine, or with simple imprisonment not exceeding six months.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.
