Crime of Refusing or Evading the Obligation to Provide Support
Any person who has the obligation to provide support and has the actual capacity to perform such obligation under the law but refuses or evades the obligation to provide support, thereby causing the supported person to fall into a life-threatening or health-threatening situation, or who has already been administratively sanctioned for one of the acts prescribed in this Article but continues to reoffend, shall, unless falling under the provisions of Article 380 of this Code, be subject to a warning, non-custodial reform of up to 02 years, or imprisonment of between 03 months and 02 years.
(Legal basis: Clause 37, Article 1 of the Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Penal Code 2015)
