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Liability of husband to maintain his wife and her children, and of fathers, &c., to maintain their own children.
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53. For the purposes of this Act every husband shall be liable to maintain his wife, and every child under the age of fifteen, whether legitimate or illegitimate, which she may have had at the time of her marriage with such husband; and every father shall be liable to maintain his child, and every widow to maintain her child, and the mother of every bastard child to maintain such bastard child, until every such child respectively shall attain the age of fifteen years: Provided always, and be it declared, that nothing herein contained shall be taken to remove or lessen the obligations to which any husband or parent is by law liable in regard to the maintenance of his wife or children, legitimate or illegitimate respectively, independently of this Act.
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