tive order are bound to provide maintenance only in such cases when the indigent persons are not able to obtain the same from spouse, children, or parents on account of absence or indigence.
174. In case such persons refuse to maintain their relatives who are indigent and unable to work, the said relatives have the right to claim the maintenance due to them in accordance with the procedure prescribed in Sections 108 to 118.
175. Persons bound to provide maintenance jointly shall bear the responsibility for it in equal proportions, unless the court, on taking due notice of the variance in the means of the said persons or the absence of one of them or on some other worthy consideration, shall decide that they shall participate in the provision of the maintenance in proportion other than that prescribed herein.
176. In case it shall not be possible to obtain the maintenance from the persons bound to provide the same, the court shall have the right to impose this duty upon the relative next bound in the order of affinity to provide the said maintenance. This next relative shall have the right to recover this charge from the party originally bound to provide the maintenance.
177. The court may secure the provision of a maintenance by a charge upon the property of the person bound to provide the same; likewise the court may secure guarantee for such provision pending the final judgment in the suit for maintenance.
178. Any agreement tending to abrogate the right to maintenance shall be deemed void.
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