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Originally Posted by superk
Actually, it does happen often enough. An indigent family member who's living in a Nursing Home gets evicted. As their closest living relative, you get asked to pick them up and bring them back to your home. You refuse, so the Sheriff transports them to your home. You still refuse. Will they arrest you?
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They will not arrest you but they can have the court order you to care for the person. This assumes that you have some legal guardanship over the person. If it's just Aunt Ethel who got thrown out of her place, you have no responsibility to take them in and the law wont do nothing but takew them to a homeless shelter. The thing to be careful of is if you ever signed some guradianship papers or accepted financial control, those can mean you are legally asuming control including housing.
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