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 In the event that a court adjudges a husband or wife incompetent or quasi-incompetent, the wife or husband shall be the custodian or curator. But when an interested person or public prosecutor makes a request and there is a significant reason, the court may appoint a different person as the custodian or curator.

In the event that either spouse is insane, irrespective of whether or not he or she has been adjudged incompetent by a court, and the other spouse fails to appropriately maintain him or her, or commits any act or fails to do an appropriate act, thereby placing him o her in the state of being likely to suffer harm to the property, body, or mind, the person who may request a court to adjudge an insane person incompetent according to section 29 or the custodian shall have the power to claim maintenance for the insane spouse from the other spouse and/or request the court for any order for protection of the insane spouse.

In such an event as said in paragraph 1, if the court has not yet adjudged the insane spouse incompetent, the person under paragraph 1 shall request the court in the same case for its order adjudging the insane person incompetent, with or without an additional request for appointment of