Chapter on the maintenance of fathers, children, and mothers.

A person is not obliged to provide maintenance to any relative purely by virtue of kinship, except to his small, needy children and to his parents when they are poor and unable to earn a living. A man must support his son, if the latter possesses no wealth, until he reaches the age of men, and he must support his daughter until her husband consummates the marriage with her or until she has remained unmarried for a very long time. Once the boy reaches maturity, or the girl’s husband consummates the marriage—