Deserting A Wife Or Young Child - Is A Felony Abandoning and not providing for the care of a wife and/or kids (15 & under) is still a criminal act, in Oklahoma. Aside from civil court action and divorce court, the dependents can turn to the police and have the man arrested.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

DESERTING A WIFE OR YOUNG CHILD-IS A FELONY

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Deserting A Wife Or Young Child - Is A Felony

Abandoning and not providing for the care of a wife 
and/or kids (15 & under) is still a criminal act, in Oklahoma.

 Aside from civil court action and divorce court,
 the dependents can turn to the police and have the man arrested.

§21-853.  Desertion of wife or child under 15 a felony.

Every person who shall without good cause abandon
 his wife in destitute or necessitous
 circumstances and neglect and refuse to maintain 
or provide for her, or who shall abandon
 his or her minor child or children under the age
 of fifteen (15) years and willfully neglect
 or refuse to maintain or provide for such child
 or children, shall be deemed guilty of a felony
 and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for
 any period of time not less than one (1) year or more than ten (10) years.

Added by Laws 1915, c. 149, § 1.  Amended by Laws 1923, c. 78, p. 144, § 2, emerg. eff. March 28, 1923; 
Laws 1997, c. 
133, § 253, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess.,
 c. 5, § 157, eff. July 1, 1999.

NOTE:  Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 253
 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.

§21-854. Proof of marriage - Wife as competent witness - Duty of County Attorney to prosecute.

No other evidence shall be required to prove marriage of such husband and wife, or that such
 person is the lawful father or mother of such child
 or children than is or shall be required to prove such fact in a civil action, and such wife shall
 be a competent witness to testify in any case brought under this act, and to any and all matters
 relevant thereto, including the fact of such marriage and the parentage of such child or children. 
 It shall be the mandatory duty of each district attorney of this state to diligently prosecute all 
persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter (Chapter 31, Title 21 O.S.1951), and in all
 cases where the evidence is deemed sufficient to justify a prosecution for such violation, any district 
attorney who shall willfully fail, neglect or refuse to institute criminal proceedings to enforce such provisions,
 shall be subject to removal from office.

Laws 1915, c. 149, § 2; Laws 1949, p. 203, § 1.