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Who can receive support?
Verified 17 avril 2020 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
- Separate parent may have to pay maintenance for the child..
- One of the former spouses may apply to the other for support payments for himself. This applies in the case of divorce for acceptance of the principle of marriage breakdown, for fault or final alteration of conjugal relationship) or in the case of body separation..
- If the succession takes place before a notary, the surviving spouse is entitled to support when he is in need. Children, or beautiful children, pay this pension to their father, mother or father-in-law, mother-in-law.
- Children (or grandchildren) have an obligation to help a parent (or grandparent) who is unable to provide for himself or herself.
This obligation maintenance obligation, extends to sons and daughters-in-law and their in-laws.