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CHAPTER II.

Cases where

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§ 70. A marriage may be annulled for the causes, in the marriages manner, and with the effect, provided in the Code of Civil annulled. Procedure.

may be

ARTICLE II.

DISSOLUTION.

Marriage, how dissolved,

When separation may be adjudged.

a

$ 80. Marriage is dissolved:

1. By the death or sentence to imprisonment for life of either of the parties; or,

2. By the judgment of a competent tribunal for the causes, in the manner, and with the effect, provided in the Code of Civil Procedure.

§ 81. No pardon granted after the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, to any person sentenced to imprisonment for life in this state, restores such person to the rights of any previous marriage, or to the guardianship of any issue of such marriage.

ARTICLE III.

SEPARATION.

§ 90. A separation of husband and wife from bed and board, for life or for a limited time, may be adjudged for the causes, in the manner, and with the effect, provided in the Code of Civil Procedure.

CHAPTER III.

Mutual ob ligations of hus

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

$ 100. Husband and wife contract towards each other band and obligations of mutual respect, fidelity and support.

wife.

Rights of husband

as head of

§ 101. The husband is the head of the family. He may the family. choose any reasonable place or mode of living, and the wife must conforr reto.

106 The mutual consent of the par consideration for the agreement menti section.

§ 107. A husband and wife may hold property together.

§ 108. Neither husband nor wife, as s for the acts of the other.

§ 109. If the husband neglects to mak ion for the support of his wife, any othe good faith, supply her with property or for her support, and recover the reasona from the husband.

§ 110. If the wife abandons the husba for her support until she offers to retu justified, by his misconduct, in abandoni

§ 111. The relation of husband and w and is subject to the provisions of the ti

Legiti macy of children

TITLE II.

PARENT AND CHILD.

CHAPTER I. By birth.
II. By adoption.

CHAPTER I.

CHILDREN BY BIRTH.

§ 120 All children born in wedlock are presumed to be born in legitimate.

wedlock.

Legitimacy of children

§ 121 All children of a woman who has been married,

Corn out of born within ten months after the dissolution of the mar

wedlock.

riage, are presumed to be legitimate.

thereto.

§ 125 The mother of an illegitimate u entitled to its custody, services and earni

§ 126 The supreme court may direct a made to the parent of a child, out of it: past or future support and education, on may be proper, whenever such direction

§ 127 The parent, as such, has no con erty of the child.

§128 The abuse of parental authority judicial cognizance in a civil action brou or by its relative within the third degree visor of the town where the child resid abuse is established, the child may be minion of the parent, the parent punishe support and education enforced.

When parental authority

ceases.

Remedy when a

without

for the

support of

§ 129 The authority of a parent ceases:

the

1. Upon the appointment by a court of a guardian of person of the child;

2. Upon the marriage of the child; or,

3. Upon its attaining majority.

$130 If a parent chargeable with the support of a child parent dies dies, leaving it chargeable to the town, and leaving an providing estate sufficient for its support, the supervisor of the town his child. may claim provision for its support from the parent's estate by civil action, and for this purpose may have the same remedies as any creditor against that estate, and against the heirs, devisees and next of kin of the parent.

Reciprocal duties of

§ 131. It is the duty of the father, the mother, and the and child- children, and other descendants of any poor person who is maintain- unable to maintain himself by work, to maintain such

ren in

ing each other.

When a

parent is

neces

person to the extent of their ability. The promise of an adult child to pay for necessaries previously furnished to such parent is binding.

§ 132 If a parent neglects to provide articles necessary liable for for his child who is under his charge, according to his cirsaries sup- cumstances, a third person may in good faith supply such necessaries, and recover the reasonable value thereof from the parent.

plied to a child.

When a

parent is

for sup

§ 133 A parent is not bound to compensate the other not liable parent or a relative for the voluntary support of his child port fur- without an agreement for compensation, nor to compensate a stranger for the support of a child who has abandoned the parent without just cause.

nished his child.

Husband

for the support of

§ 134. A husband is not bound to maintain his wife's not bound children by a former husband; but if he receives them his wife's into his family and supports them, it is presumed that he does so as a parent, and where such is the case, they are marriage. not liable to him for their support, nor he to them for their

children

by a former

services.

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