SECTION 53

Where an account, even a joint account, funded by the earnings and salary of one of the spouses married under the joint property regime, is subject to a distraint or sequestration for the payment or guarantee of a debt incurred by the other spouse, the spouse whose earnings have been funding the account shall forthwith be awarded a sum of his choice equivalent to the earnings and salary paid into the account during the month preceding the attachment or an average of the earnings for the twelve months immediately preceding the attachment .