FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES
LAWS FOR MARRIED MEN. It is a truism to >ay that marriage brings lities, but how nianv mon. when they marry, realise what their” full, and legal, burden might be in certain circumstances? The law savs that a man is not bound to ma in tai i any of his wifes relatives, but---a somewhat queer exception--he is bound to maintain, until they are sixteen, any children she may have had by a former husband. Thus a man who married a widow who concealed from him the fact that she had children would have a big burden to bear. A married man is not bound to maintain his wife, or his son’s widow, or his daughter’s ffusband, whatefer their circumstances, but he can be compelled, if necessary, to contribute towards the support of the grandchildren. To balance the grandchildren responsibility he cannot b;* compelled to maintain his own grandfather or grandmother—nor his brother
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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154FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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