Title VIII — Support
Article 200
ELI5— what this means for you
The amount of support is not fixed — it is proportionate to the resources of the giver AND the needs of the recipient. As the giver's income grows or the recipient's needs change, the court can increase or decrease the support amount. This is a dynamic obligation, not a one-time fix.
Key point
Support is always adjustable. Changed income or changed needs = valid basis to go back to court for adjustment.
Official text — EO 209
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, should the latter not have sufficient means to satisfy all claims, 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 child shall be preferred. (295a)
Source: lawphil.net (EO 209 as amended)
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