Filial Support Laws In California (sales, to buy, codes)

[Chava61]

How Filial Support Laws In The State Of California Can Impact You

I wondering if anyone has heard of this being enforced or thinks it might be enforced in the future for anyone who is a resident of California.

[cb73]

There's a radio show on here on the weekends talking about how to successfully hide your assets so you can get MediCal to pick up your bills. So it doesn't sound like anything is being enforced.

[Curmudgeon]

I've know of it for a couple of decades but even when working in the seniors arena for the state legislatively don't remember it ever being evoked. That is not, however, to say it one day won't be. After all, trains to nowhere come first in CA.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

LOL. Read that web page. Which, is an advertisement for someone who profits by selling their services to people with supposed crisis-level retirement issues. This is not a news website.

So, after realizing this is an advertisement by a sales person - note that he says that California's law specifically says that children are absolutely NOT required to pay for their parent's bills.

Then, he says, but hey, don't you think CA might amend that law....someday?

So, therefore, you might have a crisis - someday - if the law gets amended - which, if you're too stupid to read all of that and comprehend it - then you might be stupid enough to buy whatever this guy is selling.

Big note to everyone - California law says children can not be held liable for their parents bills, medical or otherwise.

From the OP's link:

W and I Section 12350 says:

“No relative shall be held legally liable to support or to contribute to the support of any applicant for or recipient of aid under this chapter.”

It further states “No county or city and county or officer or employee thereof shall threaten any such relative with any legal action against him by or in behalf of the county or city and county or with any penalty whatsoever.”

My question to you is this. If California really needed the money, don’t you think that W and I Code Section12350 would be readily amended?

And my question to this fear-monger who wants to profit on that fear is:

Don't you think the CA voters would vote to keep the law as-is?

And my answer to his question is - No. It would not be readily amended.

Sheesh. How lame.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

These sort of laws are really obsolete.

They originated back when every generation did a bit better than the previous.

Now that the Silent Gen experienced the peak of positive outcomes, broad brush, to enforce such laws would constitute generational theft.

This is especially true in cases where the parents made a lot more money than their kids, net, net, but fizzled it away on divorces, drugs, booze, and instant gratification. I don't own my parents' lack of judgement during their middle aged years.

[Chava61]

"4400. Except as otherwise provided by law, an adult child shall, to the extent of his or her ability, support a parent who is in need and unable to maintain himself or herself by work."

CA Codes (fam:4400-4405)