Case of mom suing kids unlikely to spur more claims: lawyer
Says he's seen less than a dozen cases like it
Tamara Slobogean Sep 22, 2011 06:55:02 AM
0 VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The case of a 73-year-old BC woman suing her adult children for parental support may sound more like the plot from a TV movie. News1130 is speaking with the lawyer for one of the kids about the 90-year-old law that's raising a lot of eyebrows.
All that's left of parental maintenance legislation introduced in the '20s is one section now found in the Family Relations Act. Vancouver lawyer John Paul Boyd says while he's just about seen it all in his job, you don't come across this kind of a case every day:
"Family law involves people who find themselves in all sorts of different circumstances after all sorts of different kinds of relationships and there have been some real-ringers in the past. But certainly, claims for parental support are extremely rare."
Boyd tells us he's only come across nine or 10 reported cases that have ever considered this particular part of the law.
"I don't think the publicity that this case has attracted, at this point, will prompt a lot of parents into action. You can only imagine the level of family acrimony that has to exist before a parent feels moved to sue her own children." |
發表於 2011-9-22 06:45
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