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This is jaw dropping. How is this legal at all? It sounds like a good startup. Do background checks on homeless people, see if they have any living relatives,
by plank_time 5y ago
This is jaw dropping. How is this legal at all?
It sounds like a good startup. Do background checks on homeless people, see if they have any living relatives, and if so you can house them in a nursing home and charge the relatives.
- thechao 5y agoThey're legal because they're laws. I think you might be asking how they're constitutional? They're constitutional because there's nothing in the constitution that prevents such laws. Are they fair? I mean ... sometimes? These laws (supposedly) solved a problem where parents would bequeath their estate to their children prior the parents' death and, then, the children would leave their parents destitute. It's not clear how much of a problem this really was (think "19th century); it was probably just a popular image that politicians used as a talking point? My suspicion is you'd need to use jury nullification to make the law "go away".