Paper's abstract

Jean-Jacques Lemouland, Maintenance allowance: myth or reality?
Traditionnally defined in the French Civil code as an effect of mariage, alimony offers today a really more complex image, torn between civil law and social protection law. Great confusion, many uncertainties, many practical difficulties come out of this fact which the lawmaker tries to answer in a pragmatic and punctual way. This is not enough to remedy the legitimity crisis known by maintenance allowance, for lack of a general reflexion and of a coherent policy, in family matters as well as in social matters.

Key Words : alimony, allowance
t. 57, 2014 : p. 159-173

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