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 A child is required to maintain the father and mother.

The father and mother are required to provide appropriate maintenance and education to a child during his or her minority.

The father and mother are required to maintain a child who has already attained majority only when he or she has infirmity and cannot earn his or her own living.

Apart from a public prosecutor according to section 1562, the father or mother may take on an action for claiming monetary maintenance or other maintenance for a child.

A child who has not yet attained majority must be subject to the parental power of the father and mother.

The parental power is vested in the father or mother in the following events:

the father or mother has died;

it is not certain whether the father or mother is still alive or has died;

the father or mother has been adjudged incompetent or quasi-incompetent by a court;