Parental, or filial, support laws can leave adult children responsible for their parents' unpaid long-term care bills. Twenty-nine states and Puerto Rico have these laws in place. Is your state among them?http://www.bankrate.com/finance/i...t-laws.asp




When my sister who was in a nursing home for years died last year, the nursing home was just so happy that I had already provided burial funds for her at a local funeral home and a place to be buried. Without relatives involved, the burden is on the Home to put them in a grave for the poor. No, I cannot see them driving relatives away by enforcing that unfair law on the children.

The article refers to only children. I did not see the words sister or family in the article.