42Liability to maintain wife or husband, and children.
(1)For the purposes of this Act—
(a)a man shall be liable to maintain his wife and his children, and
(b)a woman shall be liable to maintain her husband and her children.
(2)The reference in paragraph (a) of the last foregoing subsection to a man's children includes a reference to children of whom he has been adjudged to be the putative father, and the reference in paragraph (b) of that subsection to a woman's children includes a reference to her illegitimate children.
(3)In the application of subsection (2) of this section to Scotland, for the reference to children of whom a man has been adjudged to be the putative father there shall be substituted a reference to children his paternity of whom has been admitted or otherwise established.