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About half of US states have laws like this. Sometimes it's a specific financial responsibility for medical bills or burial costs, sometimes it's a more general
by burkaman 10y ago
About half of US states have laws like this. Sometimes it's a specific financial responsibility for medical bills or burial costs, sometimes it's a more general law like this one: https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/partiv/titlei/chapter273/section20 https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/partiv/titlei/cha...
This Massachusetts law does excuse children who were not "reasonably supported" by their parents when they were a minor.
- hga 10y agoAre these laws actually enforced? In addition to the one you point out, there's a host of loopholes I see in the bare bones law, "when such parent through misfortune and without fault of his own is destitute".
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoYes : http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/A36025_11.pdf http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/A36025_1...
- hga 10y agoHmmm, well, I suppose it's a pity my mother's abuses left me poor and not very able to help pay her future out-of-state medical bills....