Art. 208 Code civil — Le montant des aliments : besoin de l'un, fortune de l'autre

Ce que cet article ne dit pas

• × Il ne donne aucun barème. Les tables et grilles diffusées en matière de pension pour enfant sont des outils indicatifs, pas la règle de cet article.
• × Il ne fige pas le montant : la contribution est révisable dès que le besoin ou la fortune change.
• × Il ne dit pas qui doit les aliments : la qualité de débiteur résulte des articles 205 et suivants.
• × Il ne s'applique pas tel quel à la contribution à l'entretien des enfants, mesurée par l'article 371-2 aux ressources des deux parents et aux besoins de l'enfant.

The other parent stopped paying: child maintenance in four civil codes

• Italia Art. 337-ter Codice Civile Each parent contributes in proportion to income; where a periodic sum is needed the judge weighs five criteria including the economic value of each parent's caring work, indexes it to ISTAT, and may order a tax-police investigation of undocumented means.
• Italia Art. 337-septies Codice Civile The court may order a periodic sum for adult children who are not economically independent, paid directly to the child unless the court decides otherwise - with the whole regime for minors applying in full to adult children with a severe disability.
• Deutschland § 1601 BGB Relatives in the direct line owe each other maintenance - in both directions and without limit up or down, so the same sentence carries child support and support for elderly parents. Siblings and in-laws owe nothing.
• Deutschland § 1603 BGB No maintenance is owed by someone who cannot pay without endangering his own reasonable maintenance - except that parents in that position must still use all available means equally for themselves and their minor children.
• Deutschland § 1612a BGB A minor child may claim maintenance as a percentage of the minimum maintenance - 87, 100 and 117 per cent in three age brackets - with the underlying figure fixed by regulation every two years rather than stated in the code.
• España Artículo 93 del Código Civil The judge must in every case determine each parent's contribution and keep it adapted to the parties' means and the children's needs at any given time - and in the same decision fix maintenance for adult children without income living at home.
• España Artículo 142 del Código Civil Maintenance means everything indispensable for sustenance, housing, clothing and medical care, plus education while a minor and afterwards where the training is unfinished for a reason not attributable to the recipient, plus pregnancy and birth expenses.

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