Editing Alimony (section)

=== Italy ===
The duty of mutual assistance of the spouses turns into an obligation of maintenance following the personal separation. The spouse who is not responsible for the separation has, in fact, the right to receive from the other "what is necessary for its maintenance" (Article 156 of the Italian Civil Code).

In case of dissolution of the marriage, art. 5, paragraph 6, of Law 898/1970 provides for the obligation for a spouse to periodically provide the other with a check "when the latter does not have adequate means or in any case cannot obtain them for objective reasons", the determination of which it is entrusted to certain specific parameters (conditions of the spouses, reasons for the decision, personal and economic contribution given by each to the family management and to the formation of the patrimony of each or the common one, income of both, duration of marriage).<ref>F. Salerno, ''[https://www.academia.edu/52461613/Il_diritto_giurisprudenziale_in_materia_di_assegno_di_mantenimento_nello_scioglimento_del_matrimonio_e_dellunione_civile Il diritto giurisprudenziale in materia di assegno di mantenimento nello scioglimento del matrimonio e dell’unione civile],'' in ''Rivista di Diritto Civile,'' 2021, pp. 187-203</ref>