PROMULATE THE LAW THAT ESTABLISHES PENALITIES FOR THE INCUMPMENT OF DEBERS TO FAMILY ASSISTANCE LEY 13.944 Sanctioned: September 15-1950
Promulgated: October 9-1950
See Background Normatives. WHY:
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, sanction with force
LEY:
ARTICLE 1.- Imprisonment of one month to two years or fine
seven hundred and fifty pesos a
Twenty-five thousand pesos parents who, even without a civil sentence, are subject to the provision of the necessary means for the subsistence of their children under the age of eighteen, or more if they are prevented.
(Months of the fine replaced by art. 1st point 11 Act No. 24,286 B.O. 29/12/1993) ARTICLE 2.- In the same penalties as the previous article, they shall, in the event of substrates to provide the necessary means for subsistence, even without a civil sentence:
(a) The child, with respect to disabled parents;
(b) The adopter, with respect to the adopted person under eighteen years of age, or more if he was prevented; and the adopted with respect to the disabled adopter;
(c) The guardian, guardian or curator, with regard to the minor aged under eighteen years or older if he is prevented, or the incapable, from being found under his guardianship, guardian or guardian;
(d) The spouse, with respect to the other not legally separated because of him.
ARTICLE 2o bis.- It shall be repressed with the penalty of one to six years ' imprisonment, which, in order to circumvent the fulfilment of its food obligations, maliciously destroys, inuses, damages, conceals, or causes property to disappear or fraudulently diminishes its value, and thus frustrates, in whole or in part the fulfilment of such obligations.
(Article 1 of the Act No. 24.029 B.O. 18/12/1991) Article 3.- The responsibility of each of the persons mentioned in the preceding two articles shall not be excluded by the circumstances of the existence of others also obliged to provide the necessary means for subsistence.
ARTICLE 4.- Add to article 73 of the Criminal Code the following subparagraph: “5th: non-compliance with family care duties, when the victim is the spouse.”
ARTICLE 5o.- This Act shall be incorporated into the Criminal Code.
ARTICLE 6.- Contact the Executive.
Given the meeting room of the Argentine Congress, in Buenos Aires, 15 September of the Year of the Liberator General San Martín, 1950.