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Willful neglect

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Willful neglect is the neglect of the husband to provide for his wife the common necessaries of life, he having the ability to do so; or it is the failure to do so by reason of idleness, profligacy, or dissipation.

Civil Code Cal. § 105.