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Article 34 - Obligation of Maintenance

  1. Spouses owe each other maintenance during the subsistence of the marriage.

  2. Upon divorce or annulment, a former spouse who lacks sufficient means to provide for their own reasonable needs may be entitled to maintenance from the other former spouse, having regard to:

  1. The duration of the marriage
  2. The standard of living enjoyed during the marriage
  3. The age, health, and earning capacity of each former spouse
  4. The contributions of each spouse to the marriage, including homemaking, child-rearing, and support for the other spouse's career or education
  5. Such other factors as are relevant to a just determination.

  1. Post-divorce maintenance may be awarded for a fixed period, to allow the receiving spouse to achieve economic independence, or for an indefinite period where the circumstances so require.

  2. Parents are obliged to maintain their minor children. This obligation is not affected by the dissolution of the marriage or by whether the child was born during or outside of marriage.

  3. The obligation of parents to maintain extends to adult children who are:

  1. Incapacitated and unable to provide for themselves
  2. Engaged in education or vocational training, until the age of twenty-five years, to the extent that the child is unable to meet the costs from their own resources.

  1. Adult children are obliged to maintain their parents who are in need, to the extent of their ability, having regard to their own obligations and resources.

  2. Maintenance obligations under this Article may be modified by the Royal Chancellery upon a material change of circumstances.