Article 336 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE NINETEENTH. Crimes against life and bodily integrity · CHAPTER VII. Abandonment of persons
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
To whoever, without justified motive, abandons his children or his spouse, without resources to attend to their subsistence needs, there shall be applied from one month to five years of imprisonment, or from 180 to 360 days fine; deprivation of family rights, and payment, as reparation of damage, of the amounts not timely supplied by the accused.