3° the husband who, without legitimate reason, voluntarily abandons his wife for more than one month, knowing her to be pregnant; 4° the father or the mother who, having entrusted to a third party the maintenance of their child, refuses, in bad faith, to pay the amount of the expenses necessary for this maintenance 5° the father and mother, whether or not they have been deprived of parental authority, who seriously compromise the health, safety or morality of one or more of their children by illtreatment, by pernicious examples of habitual drunkenness or notorious misconduct, by a lack of care or by a lack of necessary parental guidance. In the case of the offenses provided for in 1° and 2° of the first paragraph of this article, the prosecution shall initially involve an arrest of the offender by a judicial police officer, which shall be recorded in a report. He shall be given a period of eight days to fulfill his obligations. If the defendant is on the run or has no known residence, the arrest shall be replaced by an administrative notification to the last known address. During marriage, prosecution shall be only carried out on the complaint of the spouse who has remained at home. Article 453: Any person who, in disregard of a decision rendered against him by virtue of the provisions relating to marriage or in disregard of an order or judgment having ordered him to pay maintenance to his spouse, ascendants or descendants, voluntarily remains for more than two months without providing the full amount of the subsidies determined by the judge or paying the full amount of the maintenance, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three months to one year and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs. Failure to pay shall be presumed to be voluntary, unless proven otherwise. The insolvency resulting from habitual misconduct or laziness is in no case a valid excuse for the debtor. Article 454: Any person convicted of any of the offenses provided for in the two preceding articles may, in addition, be deprived to exercise his rights as mentioned in article 68. Article 455: Any person who, having entered into a marriage contracts another before the dissolution of the previous marriage shall be punished by imprisonment of six months to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs. The civil registrar who celebrates this marriage knowing the existence of the previous one shall be sentenced to the same punishment. The attempt shall be punishable.

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