Cap. 16 Art. 27Whenobligation supply maintenance ceases.

(1) The obligation of any person to supply maintenance to to another shall cease if the person in whose favour such obligation is established, shall contract marriage, notwithstanding the opposition of the person liable as aforesaid, provided such opposition be made on good grounds, and the demand from the release from such obligation be made by the person objecting within the time of six months following the celebration of the marriage.

(2) Such opposition shall only be operative if it is made by means of a judicial act to be served on each of the parties intending to contract the marriage, and filed in the registry of the civil court, in the island in which the person objecting, or either of the said parties, resides.