Court Orders Adult Son To Pay For Mother’s Care-giving Expenses Despite Claims Of Childhood Abuse

A Pennsylvania Appeals Court has held that under the State’s filial responsibility law an adult son is obligated to pay for his mother’s health care expenses even though he claimed that he had an abusive childhood. There are a handful of States that have filial responsibility laws that obligate adult children to care for indigent parents. The Pennsylvania Court held in Eori v. Eori that there was no evidence Joshua Ryan was abandoned by his mother for a 10-year period. The full text of the Pennsylvania Appeals Court decision can be read here.

See Son Must Pay for Mother’s Care Under Filial Responsibility Law Despite Abusive Childhood, Elder Law Answers, November 24, 2015.