Text of the provision

Art. 202. Support in the cases referred to in the preceding article shall be reduced or increased proportionately, according to the reduction or increase of the necessities of the recipient and the resources or means of the person obliged to furnish the same.

(297a)

Family Code of the Philippines, Executive Order No. 209, approved July 6, 1987. The Code took effect on August 3, 1988 (Republic v. Orbecido III, G.R. No. 154380, October 5, 2005). Reproduced in full.

What this article means

A support award is never final. Because it tracks the same two variables as Article 201 — the recipient's needs and the giver's means — it must be adjusted whenever either changes: raised if the recipient's needs grow or the giver prospers, lowered if needs shrink or the giver's means fall.

This is why a fixed judgment for support does not acquire the usual immutability: a party may always return to court to modify it on a showing of changed circumstances.

Related provisions

Cases interpreting this article

Note. The text of the provision above is reproduced in full from the official enactment. The annotation, case summaries and commentary around it are the work of Vivas & Nobles Law Office and are general legal information, not legal advice. Whether this provision applies to a particular marriage depends on facts that only a lawyer reviewing your situation can assess.