Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 3B

3B. (1) Marriage imposes on both spouses the obligation to look after, maintain, instruct a nd educate the children of the marriage taking into account the abilities, natural inclination s and aspirations of the children. (2) The obligation of the parents to provide maintenance according to sub-article (1) also includes the obligation to co ntinue to provide adequate maintenance to children, according to their means, and where it is not reasonably possible for the children , or any of them, to maintain themselves adequately, who: (a) are students who are participating in full-time education, training or learni ng and are under the age of twenty-three; or Cap. 413. (b) have a disability, as defined in the Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act, whether such disability is physical or mental. (3) The obligations provided in sub-article (1) also bind a person acting in loco parentis with regard to another person’s child, by reason of the marriage of such person to a parent of that ch ild, where the other parent of that child, shall have, at any time b efore or during the marriage, died o r was declared as an absentee according to Title VII of Book First of this Code, or is unknow n: Provided that the provisions of this sub-article shall be without prejudice to the obligations of the natural parents of the child and shall in any case be without prejudice to the provisi ons of article 149. CIVIL CODE [CAP. 16. 11 Surname to be used by spouse and children of the family. Substituted by: XXI.1993.3. Amended by: XVIII.2004.3; XIII.2007.13; XV .2012.2; L.N. 426 of 2012; IX.2014.11; XI.2015.18; XII.2015.2; XXIII.2017.29. Substituted by: LXV .2020.3.