Art. 4567.Expenses of Interdict and Legal Dependents

The interdict's care has to be paid for, and Article 4567 sets the order of priority for where that money comes from. The curator spends whatever portion of the revenue the interdict's property generates as necessary to properly care for the interdict's person or affairs -- ordinary income funding ordinary care without requiring a fresh court order for every expenditure, much as Article 4261 lets a tutor use a minor's income for the minor's care.

The interdict's obligations to others do not disappear because the interdict has been interdicted. With court authorization, the curator can also use that revenue to support the interdict's legal dependents -- a spouse or children who relied on the interdict for support, for instance -- keeping those obligations met even though the interdict can no longer manage them personally.

Only when the revenue is not enough for these purposes can the curator reach into the interdict's capital, and even then only with court authorization obtained through the procedure Article 4271 sets out. That sequencing protects the underlying estate, spending it down only after the income it produces has already been exhausted.