The obligation to provide child support shall be [required] from the time the person who has the right to receive it needs the same in order to survive, but it shall not be paid except from the date the claim is filed.Payment is verified for months in advance, and when the recipient of child support dies his/her heirs shall not be obligated to reimburse what the aforesaid has received in advance.Child support payments shall begin to accrue legal interest for delinquency from the moment sentence is pronounced or, if from month to month, from the time the obligation became due or should have been met. History —Civil Code, 1930, § 147; Dec. 17, 1993, No. 131, § 1.
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