(1) If the person entitled to maintenance has become indigent as a result of their moral fault, if they have grossly neglected their own obligation to maintain towards the person liable for maintenance or intentionally committed severe misconduct against the person liable for maintenance or a close relative of the person liable for maintenance, the person liable for maintenance need pay a contribution to maintenance only in the amount that is equitable. The obligation lapses completely if it would be grossly inequitable for the person liable for maintenance to be claimed on.
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) are not to be applied to the obligation of parents to maintain their minor children.
(3) The indigent person may not, by reason of a restriction of their claim arising under these provisions, claim on other persons liable for maintenance.