Erabaru.net. A father in China took his daughter to court after she refused to neglect her duties as a student to come home and take care of her after a car accident.
The man surnamed Zhang allegedly started calling and texting his daughter after being involved in a car accident in his hometown of Puyang, Henan Province, China.
After repeatedly trying and failing to convince his daughter who was studying at the university to come home and take care of her, the man was shocked that her daughter had blocked his number.
Outraged, he filed a complaint with the local family court, asking for a monthly allowance of 1,500 yuan (about $300). Article 26 of the Chinese Civil Code states that “adult children are obliged to support and protect their parents”.
Zhang told the court that he did insist that his daughter postpone her studies and go home to take care of her after the car accident. After a while, she stopped answering his phone calls, so he was forced to message her, but one day she blocked his number outright.
In her defense, her daughter claimed she had repeatedly told Zhang that her college assignments would not allow her to just leave and come home to take care of him. Plus, he explained that he also has two other brothers who could also be asked to look after his father, but all the pressure was on him from the start.
“I’m still in college, and I can’t afford my father’s alimony,” said the young woman. “I don’t have time to go back to take care of her and besides, I have two older brothers who can take care of her, so I have to go back. I blocked my dad’s number, but only because all the messages were complaints, which put me even more depressed and stressed than usual from studying and exams. I feel more tired, both mentally and physically.”
After hearing both parties, the court acknowledged that article 26 of the Chinese Civil Code provides that adult children have an obligation to provide for their parents, but argued that in this particular case, the daughter was still in school and unable to pay support.
However, the judge asked his daughter to be more sensitive to her father’s plight and try to help him without neglecting her studies. Zhang has the option to appeal. (yn)
Source: odditycentral
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