Section 5Part 2 — Duty to Maintain
Duty of children to maintain parents
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Every person born in wedlock is hereby required to maintain his or her father and mother, grandfathers and grandmothers, and every person not born in wedlock is hereby required to maintain his or her mother, the person registered as his or her father, and if there be no person so registered, the man, if any, with whom his or her mother openly cohabited at the time of his or her birth, provided that such man recognised and treated such person as his child during his or her infancy, in case such father or mother or other person as aforesaid, or all or any of such persons are unable by reason of old age, or bodily or mental infirmity to maintain himself, herself or themselves.