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Article 295

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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When the obligation to give support falls upon two or more persons, the payment of the same shall be divided between them in proportion to the resources of each.

Official text — RA 386

When the obligation to give support falls upon two or more persons, the payment of the same shall be divided between them in proportion to the resources of each.

However, in case of urgent need and by special circumstances, the judge may order only one of them to furnish the support provisionally, without prejudice to his right to claim from the other obligors the share due from them.

When two or more recipients at the same time claim support from one and the same person legally obliged to give it, and the latter should not have sufficient means to satisfy all, the order established in the preceding article shall be followed, unless the concurrent obligees should be the spouse and a child subject to parental authority, in which case the latter shall be preferred. (145)

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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