Cattusbabe
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States with filial responsibility laws are: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Whew. Now I know why I put up with the chiggers and the heat...I was thinking that this sounds like a good reason not to live in Pennsylvania, or let your deadbeat parents move there. But it's not just Pennsylvania:
Now I know why I had kids.
DoubleWhew. Now I know why I put up with the snow...I think...Whew. Now I know why I put up with the chiggers and the heat...
I was thinking that this sounds like a good reason not to live in Pennsylvania, or let your deadbeat parents move there. But it's not just Pennsylvania:
Article here: The Legal Responsibility of Adult Children to Care for Indigent Parents - Brief Analysis #521 and list of states and the applicable citation of statute here: Everyday Simplicity: Filial Responsibility Laws - List of States Having Them
The law professor interviewed in the original article seemed to think so...I don't think this would work if the children didn't live in PA, states can't
enforce their laws across state lines. Any lawyers want to comment?
TJ
"These attorneys will bring suit against adult children even if the children live out of state and even if it's been years since they had contact with their parent."
Article here: The Legal Responsibility of Adult Children to Care for Indigent Parents - Brief Analysis #521 and list of states and the applicable citation of statute here: Everyday Simplicity: Filial Responsibility Laws - List of States Having Them
The linked article seems to indicate she was not much of a parent:Taking care of one's parent is so old fashioned already? Come on, it's $8,000. How much did the mom spend on raising the child?
Grant says that his relationship with his mother "has always been strained" and that he was raised primarily by his grandparents.
"It was a big house in Drexel Hill," he recalls. "She lived on the second floor. We lived on the first. Sometimes, she'd show for dinner, sometimes not. She never did homework with us."
Grant says his mother has long overspent and mismanaged her money.
Fortunately for you, being an orphan married to an orphan, but several of the provinces up there in the Great White North seem to have adopted different versions of the Elizabethan Poor Law:You scared me when I saw the law was derived from old English law. I thought that was 'British Common Law'. Living in the last North American British colony, I thought it might apply to me. Fortunately, I :
Read : "The duty to care for parents is a purely statutorily created duty that does not exist in common law."
Nursing homes here in PA are supposed to determine if a person will need to apply for Medicaid when their fully paid Medicare days run out(usually around day 20). The nursing home calls the county Area Agency on Aging to have a level of care assessment done(referred to as an Options asessment). The AAA assessor forwards this determination to the county welfare department to do the financial determination of eligibility. If a person declines to do this, they will be presented with a bill upon discharge. I have never heard of a family member(other than spouse) being held responsible for a nursing home bill. I have real sympathy for this woman's children as I think this is harassment. The whole ridiculous nursing home system needs to be revamped in my opinion but don't get me started on this.