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THBT Retired Parents Should Be Allowed To Sue Their Kids 4 Alimony
THBT Retired Parents Should Be Allowed To Sue Their Kids 4 Alimony
Cultural mores
"If you are a (grown-up) child and not living with your parents you
should at least provide for them."
Take a recent case from China's Sichuan province. Five adults were
reportedly sentenced to up to two years in jail for abandoning their
elderly father, after a court found they hadn't fulfilled their filial duties.
Because child support payments are legal obligations imposed by a family court, a parent violates the
court order when they miss one or more child support payments. Parents who are owed back support
have a right to these payments, and suing for back child support is not uncommon
What Is Back Child Support? Legally known as arrearage, back child support is any past-due, unpaid
child support payment. An obligated parent who owes back child support is considered “in arrears.”
Can my parents sue me for raising me?
Unless there was an agreement for you to repay them or a written agreement of some sort they cannot
sue you for past issues
Is there a legal case for aged retired parents to sue their children for financial
support?
Somebody tried it here in Canada. A woman abandoned her children in their early teens, leaving
them to fend for themselves completely on their own. Later, when she was old and poor, she
tried to make them (now adults) support her, and they refused. She sued them. She lost the case,
and quite right too.