Preamble
Article 1119 – Execution for maintenance - The installments of the maintenance shall be paid in advance on the first day of each month. If the debtor is already summoned in the execution proceedings and thereafter he fails to satisfy the payment any installments, further steps shall be taken, without need of any fresh service of summons and the execution creditor may apply for the award of the income and for that purpose giving the lease of the properties to the extent necessary. But fresh summons will be necessary if the execution is filed after lapse of 1 year from the date of payment of last installments. Article 1120 – End of execution for provisional maintenance - Retroactive effect of fixation of permanent maintenance - The execution for provisional maintenance shall come to the end at the instance of the defendant, when he satisfies that the plaintiff failed to institute within 15 days from the payment of first installments the suit of which the application for provisional maintenance was preparatory, or that the suit was subsequently was pending for more than 3 months. § Sole Paragraph: The fixation of permanent maintenance shall be deemed as done from the day when provisional maintenance has been fixed. The amount which the decree holder has to receive or to refund shall be distributed in so many months as corresponding to monthly installments of the provisional maintenance. Article 1121 – Procedure to cease or alter maintenance - When there is ground to put an end or to change installments of the maintenance, the debtor or the creditor may formulate the prayer in the proceedings of the execution. The interested parties shall be summoned for a meeting which shall take place within 10 days. If there is an agreement between the parties the same shall be homologated immediately by
judgment. If there is no agreement the prayer is to be contested within the period of 5 days failing which it is deemed as admitted. If there is contestation, the steps prescribed in article 785 and following shall be followed.