Persons having claims for personal labor, maintenance, expenses of last illness and funeral, of the wife or children of the debtor, incurred in the sixty (60) days immediately preceding the filing of the petition, and the persons having legal or contractual mortgages, may refrain from attending the meeting and from voting therein. Such persons shall not be bound by any agreement determined upon at such meeting, but if they should join in the voting they shall be bound in the same manner as are the other creditors.

SOURCE: CCP § 1291.