Influence of the matrimonial property regime

Where the person with an obligation to maintain lives under the matrimonial property regime of community of property, their obligation to maintain in relation to relatives is determined as if the common matrimonial property belonged to them. Where both persons living under the matrimonial property regime of community of property have indigent relatives, the maintenance is to be paid from the common matrimonial property as if the indigent relatives had that relationship with both persons under obligation to maintain on which the obligation to maintain of the person obliged is based.