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What if you're estranged from your parents? If you haven't talked to them for twenty years are you still liable?
by ng12 5y ago
What if you're estranged from your parents? If you haven't talked to them for twenty years are you still liable?
- Archelaos 5y agoThe law provides for exceptions in serious cases. However, the German Federal Court of Justice has interpreted this quite strictly. A son who had no contact with his father for 40 years and was disinherited except for the compulsory portion still had to pay alimony. The court reasoned that the son had received substantial assistance from the father during his first 18 years and that the father had only made use of his right to testamentary freedom.[1] Just a side note: If someone has received gifts from a person who later becomes destitute, he or she must return the gift under certain conditions (the gift was made no more than 10 years ago, the recipient was not destitute on his or her part, it was not a gift of decency such as a small birthday or Christmas present, etc.). [1] BGH, Judgment of 12 February 2014, Az. XII ZB 607/12 (PDF, in German) http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2014-2&anz=7&pos=0&nr=66934&linked=bes&Blank=1&file=dokument.pdf http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/doc...